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    Quote Originally Posted by VDX View Post
    ... this should be control/loop sensors -- don't know any system fast enough to prevent overpowering with back reflection.

    The "Faraday-isolator" in the kollimator heads of the pulsed fiberlasers works "passive" - it's a nonlinear crystal in a strong magentic field, which is changing the polarisation of the emitting beam, so the evetually reflected beam wont run havoc inside the laser, but reflected to the side on a beam-trap target ...

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    Very cool technology, do you have a picture how it looks?

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    ... search for "optical isolator" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optica...ndent_isolator

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    Very cool! And expensive!

    I saw a picture on the German forum where you directly etched a copper PCB, what wavelenght/power/pulse rate did you use there? It looks like raster scanning, was it done with galvanometers or X/Y stage?

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    hehe, found this while looking for drivers...20.000W laser drivers, 4x160Amps plus controller very cheap if you are int the US


    https://www.ebay.com/itm/NUVONYX-GLG...dnKLD#viTabs_0

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    Quote Originally Posted by dar303 View Post
    I saw a picture on the German forum where you directly etched a copper PCB, what wavelenght/power/pulse rate did you use there? It looks like raster scanning, was it done with galvanometers or X/Y stage?
    ... this was with a "pulsed" 20Watt fiber-laser and XY-galvoscanners ... here a video removing the paint from a PCB and then burning through the copper to engrave a QR-code

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxBJtnqhuYw

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    *** EDIT *** - for the power -- the "20 Watts" is the averaged power, while the pulse-peak-power is in the range of 10 Kilowatts!
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    Quote Originally Posted by VDX View Post
    ... this was with a "pulsed" 20Watt fiber-laser and XY-galvoscanners ... here a video removing the paint from a PCB and then burning through the copper to engrave a QR-code

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxBJtnqhuYw

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    *** EDIT *** - for the power -- the "20 Watts" is the averaged power, while the pulse-peak-power is in the range of 10 Kilowatts!
    Very nice! What kind of driver for the diode and software for the scanners do you use to produce this?

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    ... this was with a fiber-laser, so as simple, as setting the power and TTL/PWM-pulses to let it burn.

    The controller was an E1701D - http://halaser.de/e1701.php

    Actually I'm programming a similar XY-galvoscanner system with a blue 6W-laserdiode (for engraving foam materials) with one of my own "intelligent" power-drivers, so it's the same TTL/PWM as with the fiber-laser, only changing the actual power is different (setting an analogue voltage and a latch signal) ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by VDX View Post
    ... this was with a fiber-laser, so as simple, as setting the power and TTL/PWM-pulses to let it burn.

    The controller was an E1701D - http://halaser.de/e1701.php

    Actually I'm programming a similar XY-galvoscanner system with a blue 6W-laserdiode (for engraving foam materials) with one of my own "intelligent" power-drivers, so it's the same TTL/PWM as with the fiber-laser, only changing the actual power is different (setting an analogue voltage and a latch signal) ...

    Viktor
    Thank you for the info! I would love to try out some X/Y some day! Is the software expensive?

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    I made some progress again!

    Here is my improvised cutting head and lens holder, the last picture is 100W into a rusty iron ball that I use as beam stop!

    To take it further I will need a proper 50 Amp power supply, cooling for the head, PSU/Driver and a PWM generator and lever converter to test that out before trying to mount it on the CNC! And an oil free compressor with higher pressure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dar303 View Post
    Thank you for the info! I would love to try out some X/Y some day! Is the software expensive?
    ... the software BeamConstruct is free ... but without a valid license it's only running in Demo-mode (or you program your own drivers with the SDK) -- here you'll need one of the controllers with firmware, which act as USB-license-dongle ... I'm using the E1701D-controller - http://www.halaser.de/e1701.php

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