“…Further improvement of laser drilling efficiency and quality can be obtained by means of magnetic field-assisted technique with or without assist-gas (Wang, Xu et al, 2019), water assistance (Ren et al, 2020), ultrasonic assistance (Xia et al, 2021), electrochemical corrosion assistance (Duan et al, 2020), etc. For example, in the case of femtosecond laser drilling in alumina ceramics, the effect was considerably increased by water assistance, with the taper angle diminishing by 64.19% to 4.20° and the hole cross-section area increasing by 46% (Ren et al, 2020).…”