Cutting gold leaf - can I use a 904 nm laser diode? April 06, 2015 04:16AM |
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Re: Cutting gold leaf - can I use a 904 nm laser diode? April 07, 2015 10:39AM |
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Re: Cutting gold leaf - can I use a 904 nm laser diode? April 08, 2015 05:09AM |
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While the peak power (=25Watt) sounds good, the averaged power (max. duty factor) is: 25W * 0.04% = 0.01 Watts or 10mW only! - I don't think, this is enough to affect the material eye rolling smiley
Re: Cutting gold leaf - can I use a 904 nm laser diode? April 08, 2015 06:54AM |
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Re: Cutting gold leaf - can I use a 904 nm laser diode? April 08, 2015 07:15AM |
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What's the material of the 'gold leafs'? - if it's gold, then you'll need high power pulse-lasers ... either NdYAG with 10W CW / 10kW pulsed, or fiber-lasers with similar pulsed peak powers ... expect costs of some (ten-) thousands USD!
Re: Cutting gold leaf - can I use a 904 nm laser diode? April 08, 2015 07:20AM |
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Re: Cutting gold leaf - can I use a 904 nm laser diode? April 10, 2015 04:05AM |
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Re: Cutting gold leaf - can I use a 904 nm laser diode? April 12, 2015 03:05AM |
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