The invention relates to a method and a
system for manufacturing a polarizing body
holographic grating (PVG) lens. The method comprises the following steps: a) providing a PVG lens blank; b) scanning on the PVG lens blank by using a first
wavelength laser beam along a preset
cutting path to form a
stress concentration line; and c) scanning along the same
cutting path by using a
laser beam with a second
wavelength, and applying thermal stress loading to the
stress concentration line to guide the crack to expand from the
stress concentration line so as to separate the lens blank along the
cutting path. According to the invention, a two-step
separation method of internal preset fracture path and external
thermal shock guiding is adopted. A first
wavelength laser beam (such as ultrafast laser of
picosecond and the like) can form an accurate and lossless microscopic modified chain as a stress concentration line in a substrate through
nonlinear absorption under the condition of not damaging the surface of a material due to the cold working characteristic of the first wavelength laser beam. The surface micro-cracks are eradicated from the source. And a second wavelength laser beam (such as
infrared laser of COs and the like) generates a moving and high-gradient thermal
stress field on the surface of the substrate along a preset path by utilizing the
thermal effect of the second wavelength laser beam. And the
stress field accurately acts on the internal fragile stress concentration line to guide cracks to controllably and smoothly expand, so that mechanical-contact-free guided fracture is realized.