Patent ID: 8269137

Claim:
A method for laser processing a multi-material device including a substrate and at least one target structure, the method comprising: receiving data corresponding to coordinates of target microstructures to be processed; determining a processing trajectory segment including a plurality of target microstructures in an array of microstructures; generating a pulsed laser output comprising a sequence of pulses, pulse groups, combined pulses, or pulse bursts, wherein the sequence is at least partially unsynchronized with respect to the trajectory; determining a relative displacement between each target microstructure and at least one laser pulse in the sequence; generating a deflection command sequence corresponding to the relative displacements; deflecting the pulsed laser output according to the deflection command sequence during relative motion between the substrate and a beam positioning subsystem to synchronize the target microstructures with a set of laser pulses; and irradiating each target microstructure with at least a portion of the pulsed laser output.