Data recording on ceramic material

A device for recording data in a layer of a ceramic material on a substrate, the device comprising:

• a laser source comprising a picosecond laser or a femtosecond laser;
• a digital micromirror device adapted to emit multiple laser beams;
• collimating optics adapted to collimate laser light emitted by the laser source onto the digital micromirror device;
• a substrate holder adapted to mount the substrate;
• focusing optics adapted to focus each of the multiple laser beams emitted by the digital micromirror device onto the substrate mounted on the substrate holder;
• and
• a negatively charged mesh or sheet adapted to collect positively charged debris ablated from the layer of ceramic material by the multiple laser beams;
• wherein a fluence of each of the multiple laser beams emitted by the digital micromirror device is greater than 100 mJ/cm2.