Although many practical hurdles remain to be addressed in the future, laser oil and gas well drilling has potential
advantages over the conventional rotary drilling approach, such as a smaller footprint of the drilling rig, higher rates of
penetration, reduction of downtime due to dull bits, reduction of waste caused by drilling mud, creation of a natural
casing while drilling, and ability to drill in hard rock formations. One of the most promising applications is downhole
laser perforation for well completion as an alternative to explosive technologies currently in use. In order to establish
both the technical and economic feasibility of using lasers in oil and gas drilling operations, one can measure the laser
energy required to remove a unit volume of rock. The resulting specific energy is a measure of the efficiency of the laser
drilling process and depends on the rock type and the laser operation regime that determines the laser-rock interaction
mechanism. In the present feasibility study, we compare the results of laser drilling tests conducted in two types of
reservoir rocks, namely limestone and sandstone, at different laser wavelengths and for different laser operation regimes
(continuous wave and pulsed regimes, different repetition rates and duty cycles) in terms of specific energy. We also
discuss preliminary results on the influence of the temporal shape of the laser pulses in the nanosecond regime on the
rock removal process as obtained with INO pulse-shaping fiber laser platform, with the objective to take advantage of
the flexibility and the agility of such a laser source for drilling operations in different rock types.
Despite the electronic manufacturing is well-established mass production process for a long time, the problem of
reworking, i.a. reject and replace of defect components, still exists. The rework operations (soldering, replacement and
desoldering) are performed in most cases manually. However, this practice is characterized by an inconsistent quality of
the reworked solder joints and a high degree of physiological stress for the employees.
In this paper, we propose a novel full-automated laser based soldering and rework process. Our developed soldering
system is a pick-and-place unit with an integrated galvanometer scanner, a fiber coupled diode laser for quasi-simultaneous
soldering and a pyrometer-based process control. The developed system provides soldering and reworking
processes taking into account a kind of defect, a type of electronic component and quality requirements from the IPC-
610 norm.
The paper spends a great deal of efforts to analyze quality of laser reworked solder joints. The quality depends mainly
on the type and thickness of intermetallic phases between solder, pads and leads; the wetting angles between pad, solder
and lead; and finally, the joint microstructure with its mechanical properties. The influence of the rework soldering on
these three factors is discussed and compared to conventional laser soldering results. In order to optimize the quality of
reworked joints, the different strategies of energy input are applied.
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