Crystal Laser Engraving
Last week I visited New York, really an impressive city. I took a walk around a commercial zone with small shops. I saw many typical gifts and souvenirs. You, probably, have one of these things. T-shirts with the I love NY logo, small statue of liberty reproduction and similar stuff. Suddenly I saw one that seemed me very curious. It was a bucket of crystal and inside, in perfect 3D, it was reconstructed the Statue of Liberty, based on small bubbles. Finally I discovered a souvenir without the the bad style of others. You can use this laser engraved crystals as paperweights.
But How can these laser engraving crystals are made?
The first thing is to create the purest bucket of crystal (You can always find purer crystals but you must consider the price as limitating factor) The reason to use pure crystals is clear.In case of using poor quality crystals the failure risk is obviously increased. The phase of laser engraving is carried out using an assembly of 3 laser beams with length of wave “green”, one for each three-dimensional coordinate. With the unified power of these three laser engraving beams or rays, a point is produced. This point is formed by a “melting” of the crystal, forming a microscopic bubble. This repeated process thousands of times in the 3 axes of coordinates produce a perfect three-dimensional image.
Many businesses exist nowadays that are dedicated to this work. They sell smaller machines than they can be used in commercial events and that, even, some of them also include a capturing lens to three-dimensional record your face in 3D inside one of these buckets.
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I work for a company that I think was among the first to do this back in 1997. We’re called Crystal Magic and we’re based in Orlando, FL. We work the theme parks, mail-orders, and stores like Walgreens and CVS.
The article is good as an introduction, but you may want to know that all of our work is done with only a single red or green laser, though it can be theoretically done with two or three. Red lasers tend to produce larger images with less power at lower resolutions, while green lasers tend to be used for high-res images (like that Statue of Liberty on the page), though the image’s size when its burned does depend on how busy the cleaner and burner are and the size of the crystal itsself.