To cut something on a laser cutter it has to be a vector drawing made in programs like CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Autodesk AutoCAD or the free open-source vector drawing program Inkscape.

In these and other applications, the thin-disk laser has proven to be an extremely valuable industrial tool, and one that promises to become even more valuable in the future. At Photonics West 2011, ...

The Boeing Thin Disk Laser system integrates a series of high-power industrial lasers to generate one concentrated, high-energy beam, exceeded required thresholds for power and beam quality during a ...

If the sheet piling needs to be dismantled, divers have to cut the walls into smaller pieces using a cutting torch. Normally, a diver can cut about 20 meters a day, which corresponds to a speed of ...

So they did what any self-respecting hacker would do, and they wrote a MATLAB script that generates new disk silhouette images that they then cut from cardboard with a laser cutter.

The gentle hum of a laser cutter transforming digital designs into tangible objects holds a unique magic. For parents, educators, and craft enthusiasts, this technology opens up a fascinating ...

Called the Ray, this laser cutter comes with either a powerful 40-watt laser for $1,299, or a 20-watt version for $999, a price that puts it in direct competition with Glowforge's new laser, the Aura.

A high-power ytterbium thin-disk laser drives an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) to generate high-power, stable pulses in the short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectral range.