I had this idea about seven years ago. But at that time the Laser Diodes of 405nm were impossible to obtain (USD$4000). Since last year, I have taken this idea again, because now one can buy those laser diodes around USD$40 (85mW) in eBay. I saw in web (youtube) some germans guys experimenting with this, but I have not see the results. Also I read about a french engineer who made some experiments with UV LEDs coupled with a fibre optic. I have a Polish paper which expose the use of this idea to get 50um (2 mils) clear cut beatiful traces, but they use very expensive optics ( telecentric lenses, glavos and others things which are too costly for the DIYer ). Now I struggling with optics. When I get some control of the LASER beam waist, I gonna put my laser module in a CNC engraver. There are anyone working on that in this group?
Message
Making PCB using these new 405nm LASER Diodes
2009-11-12 by lmri2071