Laser engraving is an alternative to conventional engraving methods. The laser engraving process is determined by different processing parameters, which are to be selected so as to achieve the desired final state of the workpiece. In this thesis we investigated the effects of various parameters on the amount of the removed volume and the energy efficiency of the process. The efficiency was defined as the ratio between the removed volume and the total energy per area. We investigated the effects of overlapping of pulses, overlapping of microchannels, duration of pulses and influence of different engraving strategies. We were engraving by hatching the sample areas at angle of 0° (parallel hatching), angles 0° and 90° (orthagonal hatching) and angles 0°, 45°, 18°, 71° (“magic angles”). We have visually evaluated the surface of the workpieces for each of the engraving strategies. The lengths of the pulse duration were changed between 50 ns, 120 ns and 240 ns. We found that the amount of material removed is substantially increased by increasing the overlap of the pulses and microchannels. Also, the amount of material removed is considerably larger if we engrave with longer ones. The duration of pulse also contributed to the efficiency of the engraving, the most effective was the engraving with the pulse duration of 120 ns. Engraving strategies have less impact on the material removal, but the significantly determine the shape of the microrelief of the processed surface.
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