Permanent Marking of Stainless Steel Medical Devices Without Post-Processing
By Coherent
The medical device industry faces an increasing need to create permanent identifying marks on its products. The benefits of laser marking encompass counterfeit prevention, product traceability, long-term quality control, return fraud prevention, and distribution regulation. An optimized picosecond laser system provides a turnkey solution for permanent, unique device identifier (UDI) marking of stainless steel devices. It delivers a contamination-free, sub-surface mark with very high contrast and does not have the corrosion/passivation and fading problems associated with conventional thermal laser marking.