Interesting way to use a fiber laser to deposit metal on glass

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Not sure how useful it is to us as a community but it is interesting.

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I don’t know what it is yet but I promise you someone out there will come up with a really cool use case for this.

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If I had a hobby laser, I would try it. At the least, black plastic on the back of thin glass like slides as lables would be interesting. Not a fiber laser, and certainly not variable color, but able to transfer power through glass while the glass is opaque to a CO2 laser.

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This technique is used to apply circuit traces to irregular shapes on plastics and similar. Not sure if they use it on glass (flat or formed) in industry, but I do know many years ago people in research were depositing on slides to mount and connect to artificial (or perhaps real?) neurons.

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While I don’t have a use case for this, I find it very interesting and am glad to see people doing these deep dives.

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Interesting! I might have to give this a try.

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That seems like an improvement over the thing I did with putting copper tape on a piece of acrylic to make a circuit board (this thing).

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Now that’s pretty cool. Kinda the inversion of vitreous enameling.

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