Patent ID: 7402774

Claim:
A method of flexibly optimized material processing comprising: receiving at least one material processing parameter relevant to impinging a work piece with a laser beam; issuing at least one optimized control signal corresponding to the at least one processing parameter to reduce degradation over the field of view based on the at least one material processing parameter; adjusting the laser beam to a first adjusted beam in accordance with the at least one optimized control signal; directing the adjusted laser beam to one or more targets within a first scan field; and focusing the directed beam onto the one or more targets within the first scan field wherein one said optimized control signal is an optimum scan field value corresponding to one of the group of values consisting of an effective pupil size of the beam directing optics, a focused laser beam spot size, a positional accuracy, a scanning speed, a material handling step size of a motion system, and a telecentricity value.