445 laser engraving

[Things]

Doubt it, you'd probably want at least 20W or so for that.

[JohnYayas]

My dad worked on a metal cutting laser and it was 2000W.

[Stoney3K]

My dad worked on a metal cutting laser and it was 2000W.

There is kind of a difference between cutting through metal and trying to cut through 2-3mm of plywood or plexiglass. Angle grinder and jigsaw...

Most CO2-based heads I've seen (including the $900 Chinese units) have a 20W or 40W CO2 tube to do the cutting.

Of course, that's nowhere near the power of a 1W 445nm, but there may be some tricks we can pull? If not, are there viable IR or NIR diodes (like 808nm DPSS pumpers) that can get into these kinds of powers?