Tatoo Removal Laser

Thank goodness for Theodore Maiman (and a nod to Albert Einstein), the man who first demonstrated a working laser, and the father of many of the modern-day advancements that we’ve made in the field of optical lasers.  Many people will argue which one has been the most important to mankind, and we’ll steer very clear of that argument, since we’re interested in the laser for removing self-inflicted art from our skin.

The concept is drawn from the fact that the sun fades tatoos.  Everyone knows it, and everyone who has a tatoo has seen it.  That’s why we have all those has-been hipsters in their 60’s walking around the beach with their faded tatoos that are almost unrecognizable.

Wheat we can garner from this situation is that different colored tatoo ink absorbs light at different frequencies.  Dark colors like black, brown, blue, and so on, absorb lower wavelength light than do the brighter colors like greens and yellows.  Knowing this, we can effectively submit a certain color of tatoo ink to several lifetimes of sun in a very short period of time.  This causes the ink to break down into agents that the body can absorb and dispose of.

There are several problems that must be overcome or at least monitored, though.  For one, some tatoo inks break down into toxic substances that you don’t want in your body.  This makes removing the pigment with laser tatoo removal quite difficult, and quite dangerous.

So from the information above you should be able to draw the conclusion that a laser for tatoo removal must be capable of emitting light across a wide spectrum with enough power to break down the pigments.  This, of course, is quite expensive to engineer and accounts for a good portion of the expense of laser tatoo removal.  So don’t expect to waltz in to the office, slap a $20 down, and walk out with no tatoo.  This is a costly and time consuming process that is done in stages.