Power Laser based Glass Breaker Gun

[vik1501]

I want to build a laser based gun for breaking glass of 2 mm thickness from a distance of around 10 meters. Is it possible ?

Regards,

 

[Optikon]

I want to build a laser based gun for breaking glass of 2 mm thickness from a distance of around 10 meters. Is it possible ?

Regards,

Probably need too much power to make this practical. The thing is, glass allows light (visible and IR-UV) to pass through relatively easy and so not much power is dissipated in the glass itself.

IF you had such a laser, it would likely need to have so much optical power output that the scattering of the laser as it hit the glass would be dangerous.

 

[Roff]

Not likely, unless you work for the military. A BB gun will make a nice little cone-shaped hole. :wink:

 

[pike]

To cut something like 2 mm of glass is gonna need something like 10k watt carbon trioxide laser, most definetly something not to be done at home.