Florian Lendner, Roswitha Giedl-Wagner, Steffen Rübling, Marc Sailer, Axel Fehrenbacher

• In laser drilling, one challenge is to achieve a high drilling quality in high aspect ratio drilling. Ultra-short pulsed lasers use different concepts like thin disks, fibers and rods. The slab technology is implemented because of their flexibility and characteristics. They bring together both advantages and deliver high pulse energies at high repetition rates. Materials with a thickness > 1.5 mm demand specialized optics handling the high power and pulse energies with adapted processing strategies, integrated in a machine setup. In this contribution, we focus on all the necessary components and strategies for drilling high precision holes with aspect ratios up to 1:40.