Cutting carbon fiber with a laser cutter.
Laser cut carbon fiber cloth.
Do not use a laser cutter as it will not work any carbon fiber.
Even though carbon fiber has a very high tensile strength it has only moderate shear strength so it is fairly easy to cut.
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.
This results in a very poor cut line and very few broken fibers.
What we used was a pair of scissors.
The laser melts the epoxy much faster than it can have an impact on the carbon fibers.
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.