The 1,500-square-foot clean room enables Deep Photonics to work closely with OEMs and manufacturers to test material samples and develop processes with Deep’s picosecond fiber lasers, according to the company.

“The lab will demonstrate how ultrafast fiber lasers are a unique and superior processing solution for a wide range of materials, including historically difficult-to-process materials for conventional nanosecond lasers, such as thin films, glasses, dielectrics and metals,” the company said.

The facility includes state-of-the-art automation and analysis tools for inspection/measurement of processed materials, including a linear stage in the clean room provided by Primatics Corp. of Tangent, Ore. The high-accuracy, high-throughput stage allows Deep Photonics to develop film side scribing for a-Si solar thin films at more than 2 meters per second and deliver that process to OEMs’ building systems for the thin film scribing for the solar industry, according to the company.