The present invention concerns a glass
ablation apparatus comprising a support for supporting a glass panel comprising - a glass surface, - an
laser source, - an optical head comprising one or more
processing heads, each
processing head configured for directing and focussing light from the
laser source along a beam path to an
ablation zone, whereby each
processing head comprises a focussing component configured to controllably vary a
focal zone position along the beam path, and one or more light deflector components for directing light according to a predefined
beam trajectory, and a glass surface localisation
system, and - a controller configured for receiving glass surface localisation information from the glass surface localisation
system, computing a distance between the focussing component of at least one processing head and the glass surface on the basis of said glass surface localisation information, thereby defining a target
focal zone of light focused by the focussing component, and providing a focussing
signal to the focussing component, whereby said focussing component is configured to adapt the
focal zone position on the basis of the focussing
signal, such that the target focal zone essentially coincides with an
ablation zone of the glass surface for ablating a pattern onto the glass panel.