Talisker Family of Fiber Based Lasers

Talisker is a family of high peak power and high average power picosecond lasers designed specifically for micro-materials processing. Based on a modular fiber laser with regenerative amplifier platform, Talisker is designed for an industrial environment and meets the availability requirements of demanding industries.

Delivering picosecond pulses, these lasers minimize the heat affected zone to enable smaller feature sizes for high precision micromachining. Minimizing thermal damage enables a new range of high precision applications such as silicon machining, wafer dicing, solar cell manufacturing and glass scribing with unprecedented quality. Talisker lasers process a wide variety of materials, including silicon, polyimide, metals, ”hard materials,” and glass.

The Talisker platform is designed for industrial applications. For high power and high repetition rate industrial applications the Talisker 500 is available at the specific single wavelengths of 1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm. For application development the Talisker Ultra includes all three wavelengths.

The modular design of the Talisker laser, with fiber seed, regenerative amplifier, Coherent AAA pump diodes combined with long lifetime harmonics generation gives the Talisker a low cost of ownership, flexible service packages and the long lifetime demanded by industrial applications.

The unique capabilities of picosecond pulses are ideal for high quality micromachining as they enable smaller feature sizes required by product roadmaps in a wide range of industries. Talisker provides this superior level of industrial precision.

Talisker Product Line
The Talisker Product line offers both flexibility and a robust platform tailored for industrial application. The Talisker Ultra offers wavelength flexibility (1064 nm, 532 nm and 355 nm from one laser system) for applications demanding wavelength flexibility and for application development. The Talisker 500 platform is optimised for single wavelength output at industrial levels of power, repetition rate and reliability.

Cold Machining - Processing with Greater Precision
Most processing industries today require smaller and more precise tolerances, dimensions and material thicknesses. Minimizing the heat transferred to the material during a production process is a key requirement. Picosecond, ultra short laser pulses both limit the amount of heat diffusion into the target material and reduce the pulse energy and average power requirements. The unique capabilities of picosecond pulses are ideal for high quality micromachining, because they enable the smaller feature sizes required by the product roadmaps in a wide range of industries. Talisker Ultra and Talisker 500 provide this superior level of industrial precision.

	Ready to Develop New Applications Talisker is designed for ease of use in an industrial environment. Computer control enables both smooth interface integration in machining tool designs and new applications development in an early project phase. The integrated AOM enables selection of pulses and custom pulse energy patterns. Harmonic versions of Talisker Ultra provide up to three output beams (1064 nm, 532 nm or 355 nm) from parallel beam exit ports enabling a fast track to the development of new applications.Talisker 500 offers high repetition rate and power for truly industrial applications. The Talisker platform is the most versatile picosecond tool for both R&D process development and uptime critical production environments.
Clean sidewalls of Si via hole (SEM analysis)		Si wafer via hole drilling at 355 nm

Superior Performance by Design Talisker is an industrial turnkey product based on a modular fiber/regenerative amplifier platform. The truly innovative platform uses the best of fiber-based and free-space technologies with none of the drawbacks. The fiber laser creates low energy, high repetition rate picosecond pulses and is key to the design inherent stability of Talisker. The output of the fiber-laser is then boosted to industrial power levels in a regenerative amplifier. The result is a picosecond machining laser with high average and peak power, small footprint, rugged packaging, and a process-enabling cost structure. Talisker is designed as a scalable platform to meet both your present and future processing requirements.

Glass micromilling

Putting Uptime First We understand that the key requirement of an industrial product is to maintain the highest rate of availability. That is what the Talisker laser delivers. We aggregate the volume across a number of different product families to drive reliability. That is why Talisker shares components such as power supply, harmonic crystal modules with other high volume platforms (AVIA, Verdi). Permalign solder bonded optics provide a field proven industrial design for the amplifier. Superior lifetime AAA (Aluminum free active area) pump diodes ensure highest diode reliability and lowest cost of ownership in 24/7 applications. Every Talisker laser is a web server and can be accessed via Ethernet connection. This meets industrial requirements for remote diagnostics and system monitoring as well as it enables preventive maintenance. Talisker is designed with your processing needs in mind.

Cutting holes in steel