Micromachining with a 50 W, 50 muJ, subpicosecond fiber laser system

A 50 W sub-picosecond fiber chirped pulse amplification system generating 50 muJ pulses at a repetition rate of 1 MHz is demonstrated. As required for precision high speed micro-machining, this system has a practical system configuration enabled by the fiber stretcher and 1780 l/mm dielectric diffraction grating compressor and is capable of ablation rates >0.17 mm3/s metal, ceramic, and glass.