High-Speed or Super-Speed Precision? Your Call.

See how TLS + QiOVA’s multibeam upgrade delivers up to 88% faster micromachining—without compromising precision.

Turner Laser Systems and QiOVA teamed up for benchmark testing at the TLS Applications Lab in Fremont, evaluating the capabilities of advanced multibeam laser processing. At the heart of this demonstration is a powerful integration: QiOVA’s VULQ1 spatial light modulator (SLM) paired with the TLS Kanga Laser Micromachining Workstation. This upgrade transforms a single laser beam into dozens of finely shaped and precisely positioned beamlets—enabling faster, smarter, and more flexible micromachining for high-precision applications.

By using a phase mask to generate parallel beams, users can adjust and optimize beam placement, focal position, and aberrations. This enables not only a significant increase in throughput, but also more effective processing of objects at varying distances from the lens—with improved Gaussian beam profiles tailored for better performance.

To make this capability both accessible and production-ready, TLS engineered the full system integration and testing workflow, ensuring the SLM upgrade delivers performance in a real-world micromachining environment. 

The included BeamForge software handles complex phase mask generation behind the scenes, giving users intuitive control over beam placement, rotation, and intensity. It even supports advanced beam profiles, offering flexibility for a wide range of material and feature types.

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In our first demo (00:17 in the video), we used BeamForge to upload logos, QR codes, and data matrices—instantly generating a multibeam array. We then watched in real time as the TLS and QiOVA logos rotated at 100 ms intervals, approaching the maximum update speed for liquid crystal-based SLMs.

In the second test (00:21 in the video), we measured processing speed across different beam configurations on the TLS Kanga system:

1. Single Gaussian beam: 58 seconds to raster fill the TLS logo

2. 4-beam array: 15 seconds

3. 10-beam array: just 6.8 seconds

All setups preserved precision and process control—demonstrating that high throughput can coexist with high accuracy when engineered right.

For more information Turner Laser Systems: www.turnerlasersystems.com  QiOVA:  www.qiova.com  Or contact: Mark Turner, Turner Laser Systems at: mark@turnerlasersystems.com  Robert Braunschweig, QiOVA and Turner Laser Systems partner at: robert@b-lasers.com Guillaume Bouquet, QiOVA business Development and head of Sales: g.bouquet@qiova.fr