Stents
Stents are used to open narrowed blood vessels to re-establish blood flow and circulation in human body. They are mostly made of nitinol tubes, which are processed by lasers to remove materials and to form high geometrically complex meshes.
As the heat load may lead to a formation of melts along the cutting surface, the production requires then a post-processing steps which increase the time and add more cost. This can be easily eliminated with femtosecond lasers.
High precision, speed of cutting and micromachining at high yield makes our Jasper lasers a perfect fabrication tools.
Our results:
Groundbreaking PLA cutting speed
Achieving processing speeds of up to 1 m/s with high edge quality by using an advanced and novel dicing technique in biodegradable polymer material.
Negligible kerf and taper
Cutting PLA with a kerf width under 1 µm and zero taper by combining ultrashort pulse durations of less than 250 fs with innovative beam shaping.
Elimination of post-process deburring
Reducing burrs and the heat-affected zone (HAZ) in metal stent manufacturing provides a clean surface finish on the struts that completely eliminates the need for deburring.
We can test it on your materials
Don’t guess - verify. We invite you to utilize our Ultrafast Laser Application Laboratory (ULAL) to test your samples.
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Send us your specific material samples.
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Define your desired outcome (perforation, texturizing, or marking).
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Our engineers run series of tests to find the perfect parameters.
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You receive a "proof of concept" before committing to a machine.