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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2002
Xinbing Liu, Acton, MA (US);
Chen-Hsiung Cheng, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A system and method for aligning a microfilter in an optical circuit and thereby providing sub-beam impingement intensity control from a set of highly proximate sub-beams generated from a parallel process laser system removing a portion from a workpiece (exit holes in inkjet nozzle plates). The energy of laser-generated sub-beams to the target (cutting) point is attenuated to a level sufficient for maintaining operation of a charge-coupled-device camera below saturation when the sub-beams are incident on the camera, the CCD camera monitors the sub-beams and directs output to either a monitor or control computer. The microfilter is then adjusted to provide an optimal sub-beam pattern.