It was this particular article that aroused my interest in solidstate lasers about 8 years ago.
I read that article about 5 years ago. That's a serious RGB setup.. I'd absolutely love to see it in action! I would imagine passing the final whitelight beam through fiber before output would give an ion-like beam rather than clusters of superimposed beams as produced by dichro combining alone.
Hello,
for this job several AR/KR Mixed Gas Lasers and several JENLAS RGB (628nm, 532nm and 445nm) have been used.
The Jenlas Laser are modified to get max output at 628nm or 445nm ! For get Laserdiodes or OPSL - this Jenlas are running
in TEM00 mode and have a great beam quality.
greetings,
maqrco
Hey Marco -
Thanks for chiming-in...Yeah, I was wondering, too, about that much 445 - that it a LOT of 445! Beautiful!!
Well, there we have it - Bart, you and I each owe Steve a pint....He said Jenlas first.. I for sure would have gone with KTP/Dye, since you can tune the dye and easily get those colors, and more-likely get that much power vs a fiber-laser, but sure, the Jenlas makes more sense...
I have this pic from years ago - I believe it is the Scheider - did Jenlas buy them out / take it over? Or are they one and the same? Either way, brilliant use of solid-state technology...
..but great to see Ions being champions, still...Thanks for the posting, Marco! And please pass along to your mates our profound admiration for such a great job... very, very cool werk!
cheers..
J
....and armed only with his trusty 21 Zorgawatt KTiOPO4...
yess, good eyes jon- seems the ions are alive and well on that project-
go big or go home
....and armed only with his trusty 21 Zorgawatt KTiOPO4...
Although the effect is stunning, I feel they cheated on the orange and Yellow line.
If you've got acces to a few jenlases, why not create a rainbow of 15 composite coloured beams ?
No question about it that one argon alone consumes the amount of power that could supply an entire array of Jen's.
Wouldn't 10+Watts of 593 and 561 be jawdroppin' ?
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Hi,
if you have a high power q-switched Laserscope 532 you can also use a
Raman-Cell (with internal gas return) filled with Deuterium to get bright
red (strockes) and blue (antistrockes).
With such a setup you will be able to convert arround 30-50% from
532nm to ~630nm and 10-20% from 532nm to ~457nm
greetings,
marco