From au at ociw.edu  Wed Mar  1 09:40:51 2006
From: au at ociw.edu (Alan Uomoto)
Date: Wed Mar  1 09:41:09 2006
Subject: [Lasercut] 
	Cutting thin aluminum slit masks (MMIRS & WFCCD) on a copper base
Message-ID: <4405DCA3.9020809@ociw.edu>

I talked with Michael Valente, who represents our laser manufacturer, a 
couple of weeks ago and he mentioned that our laser does not cut copper. 
I asked if using a flat copper base to hold our anodized aluminum foil 
masks with, say, a vacuum would work and he sounded optimistic. The 
example he was familiar with was cutting away photoresist from a 
copper-clad board.

I've asked Tyson to start working on a setup to test this procedure.

Alan