When it comes to drilling holes in glass, though, femtosecond lasers have traditionally performed poorly. Usual techniques involve single femtosecond pulses spaced out by a large stretch of time.

Usually, laser drilling with standard single femtosecond pulses results in tapered holes of strongly limited length and rough inner surface. No chemical etching required This new laser-matter ...

This article was originally published with the title “Drilling Holes in Plate Glass” in SA Builders Vol. 3 No. 2build (February 1887), p. 27 doi:10.1038 ...

If you were drilling small holes in thin soft wood, you could likely hold the material by hand. Of course, if that's all you were doing, it would likely be easier to use a hand drill.

Drilling holes is easy; humans have been doing it in one form or another for almost 40,000 years. Drilling really tiny holes in hard materials is more challenging, but still doable. Drilling deep, … ...