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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 29, Issue 22, Pages 36469-36486Publisher
Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.431441
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- NVIDIA Corporation
- EPSRC [EP/T026197/1, EP/N03368X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Researchers demonstrated the use of neural networks to simulate complex mapping relationships in laser machining process, solving the challenge by using a separate neural network as the loss function.
Laser machining involves many complex processes, especially when using femtosecond pulses due to the high peak intensities involved. Whilst conventional modelling, such as those based on photon-electron interactions, can be used to predict the appearance of the surface after machining, this generally becomes unfeasible for micron-scale features and larger. The authors have previously demonstrated that neural networks can simulate the appearance of a sample when machined using different spatial intensity profiles. However, using a neural network to model the reverse of this process is challenging, as diffractive effects mean that any particular sample appearance could have been produced by a large number of beam shape variations. Neural networks struggle with such one-to-many mappings, and hence a different approach is needed. Here, we demonstrate that this challenge can be solved by using a neural network loss function that is a separate neural network. Here, we therefore present a neural network that can identify the spatial intensity profiles needed, for multiple laser pulses, to produce a specific depth profile in 5 mu m thick electroless nickel. Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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