Recently, GHz burst-mode fs laser pulses, which consists of pulse trains with extremely short intervals of several hundred ps, show superior processing characteristics in laser ablation to the conventional femtosecond laser processing (single mode) at the same average power. The GHz bursts of fs laser enables to induce ablation before the residual thermal energy deposited by preceding pulses diffuses away from the processed area, resulting in the reduction of the ablation threshold and enhancement of ablation efficiency. In this study, we apply the GHz burst mode fs laser pulses for MPP of photo-sensitive polymers to explore the effect of the burst on photochemical reaction.
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