Method for cutting glass using a laser, and glass produced according to the method

A method for separating a thin glass with a thickness less than 250 μm, said method comprising the steps of:

• heating the thin glass with a laser beam along a path forming a parting line, progressing along a forward feed direction, so that based on a thus produced temperature difference of a heated glass relative to a surrounding glass, a mechanical stress is created in the thin glass and a crack propagates following the mechanical stress along the parting line, separating the thin glass;
• forming the laser beam by a beam-forming optic in such a way that a beam profile thereof has an elongated shape, said beam profile has a front end and an opposite rear end, and said front end of the beam profile has a concave recess and said opposite rear end is elliptical;
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• directing the laser beam onto a surface of the thin glass such that a longitudinal direction thereof is aligned in the forward feed direction, and wherein the elongated shape of the beam profile is asymmetric, such that an intensity progression differs at said ends of the beam profile in such a way that an increase in intensity at the front end crossing the thin glass first is steeper than a drop in intensity at the opposite rear end.