Laser Cut Carbon Fiber Cloth

Cutting carbon fiber with a laser cutter.

Laser cut carbon fiber cloth.

The laser melts the epoxy much faster than it can have an impact on the carbon fibers. Do not use a laser cutter as it will not work any carbon fiber. What we used was a pair of scissors. For metals it is known that during gas assisted laser cutting fusion cutting the laser beam heats the material while the gas jet blows the molten material out of the cut kerf 7.

Laser cutting carbon fiber can be done with either a co 2 laser or a fiber laser but the highest quality cut is achieved when using multiwave hybrid technology which combines a 10 6 micron wavelength co 2 laser beam and a 1 06 micron fiber laser beam into a single hybrid laser beam. This results in a very poor cut line and very few broken fibers. Two principles of laser cutting with cw lasers can be used for cutting carbon fiber fabrics gas assisted laser cutting galc and remote laser cutting.