用激光束绘制复杂集成电路的图案仅需一般机械操作时间的六十分之一。美帝贝耳实验室目前用这种装有激光器的机器在影印的掩膜上产生电路图案。这种机器包括一只用来固定8×12时照相底片的移动台,一台作为光源的氩激光器, Drawing a complex integrated circuit pattern with a laser beam requires only one-sixth of a typical mechanical operation time. Metrobus Labs currently uses this laser-laden machine to create a circuit pattern on a photocopied mask. This machine includes a mobile station for holding an 8x12 photographic film, an argon laser as a light source,