08 – Let’s Try the IMPOSSIBLE (03:54)

The Fiber Laser Learning Lab Series with Russ Sadler

In this Series, Lotus Laser have lent Russ a MOPA 20 watt fiber laser marker machine to “play with”. Although Russ has a moderate understanding of laser technology (his words) and how constant power glass tube systems work, pulsing fiber laser marking systems are shrouded in a deeper mystery than the glass tube machines. In this session, Russ attempts the seemingly impossible task of fiber laser marking wood.

They have been designed for high speed marking and the technology has been well tried and proven. There are limited “tricks” that the pulsing laser technology can perform. You enter predefined parameters for each marking “trick” you wish the machine to deliver , then stand back in amazement. Most correspondents tell Russ that they have bought their machine direct from China and received a machine and EZCAD software, preloaded with a few default parameters. No other instructions beyond the EZCAD manual are forthcoming.

Russ states “I am neither a teacher or expert in this field so you join me in my learning adventure with the warning that I have a simple but inquisitive mind and will probably make mistakes on my way to discovering the truth. I WILL oversimplify and maybe distort the scientific detail in my quest to build a simple picture of why and how this technology works. I am not trying to reverse engineer anything, just to break through the seemingly impenetrable ‘techno cotton wool’ that surrounds this amazing piece of science.”

Contents

One of the common beliefs surrounding fiber laser marking, is that it does not interact / mark organic materials. In this video, Russ puts this theory to the test.

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0:00 welcome to another fiber laser learning lab

0:02 today we’re going to do something

0:07 which well it might well turn me into

0:13 one of those no I’m a very modest person

0:18 but I keep telling myself I’m brilliant

0:22 my wife tells me I’m delusionary but hey

0:26 we have a difference of opinion today I

0:30 want to try and prove it to you

0:31 hey that are not delusionary although I

0:36 am going to try and do something that

0:37 I’m told is impossible I’m going to use

0:39 the fiber laser to mark this piece of

0:41 organic material would just ordinary

0:44 light weight a popular plywood this is

0:47 just a little diversion because it’s not

0:50 as much fun as I was trying when as when

0:51 I was trying to understand to reengineer

0:53 the co2 laser so I need to keep my

0:55 little gray cells active and I also need

0:58 to keep them nourished as well so let’s

1:01 start off by verifying what everybody

1:04 tells me

1:05 I just turn myself into a Hollywood star

1:08 and I’ll press the button

1:16 a very go it’s working nicely and it’s

1:18 doing nothing

1:20 Paul I know it’s going right through

1:21 that piece of wood and burning the table

1:23 underneath so let’s stop it

1:25 let me just make a few modest adjustment

1:28 to parameters

1:29 [Applause]

1:31 and we press the start button and go

1:33 again

1:49 [Applause]

Transcript for Let’s Try the IMPOSSIBLE – Fiber Laser Marking Wood (Cont…)

2:08 [Applause]

2:20 okay know that the extraction fan has

2:23 died down yes I can I can hear the

2:26 applause I’m actually taking a bow thank

2:29 you very much indeed for my next

2:31 demonstration of brilliance I’m going to

2:33 use a piece of MDF so I’m now going to

2:37 put in another set of modestly brilliant

2:39 parameters

3:22 now I’ll leave you to make up your own

3:26 mind delusion Astellas unist

3:31 genius or legend in my own lifetime

3:38 Matic objects that not suffer well I

3:41 will catch up with you in the next

3:42 session where we will try and be a

3:43 little bit more serious so thanks for

3:46 your time and sorry this is quite a

3:48 short one but then again you can do

3:52 quite a lot with short ones

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