Question: How difficult is it to work with lasers?

Viviene Dela Cruz answered on 19 May 2025:

It requires a lot of patience and precision skills. Once you have those, it basically is a matter of not getting annoyed when your experiments don’t work, and then you’re good to go 🙂 Lasers are very intricate, and to ‘control’ how the light travels, you sometimes have to fiddle with small things that very quickly move your laser out of bounds. Another difficult bit is that you have to work with it without directly looking at it. Sometimes you can’t even see it. Working with something you can’t see is very difficult! But doable. These are some of the things that make working with lasers difficult, but I would say it’s only difficult for the first couple of years and then you develop the skills for it. Then the difficult bits are what you’re trying to achieve with the laser rather than simply working with lasers 🙂