Well I got my new toy today!! The Rigel-2 593.5nm by Laserglow Technologies.
And Im very happy with it!!!
I can't wait to try it with some fog!!!!
Now if I could only understand whats going inside this thing
Here are some quick pics.
DJ Matt
Well I got my new toy today!! The Rigel-2 593.5nm by Laserglow Technologies.
And Im very happy with it!!!
I can't wait to try it with some fog!!!!
Now if I could only understand whats going inside this thing
Here are some quick pics.
DJ Matt
Last edited by djmatt; 02-19-2010 at 09:07.
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yellow is such a great color.. I want a >200mW 589nm module myself. A true yellow (no red/green combination) projector seems like it might be pretty awesome. Don't know if I'll ever get one, but it would be sweet nonetheless.
Nice pics!
DUDE!
I'm starting to think you might just like this laser "black hole" you got sucked into....
RR
Metrologic HeNe 3.3mw Modulated laser, 2 Radio Shack motors, and a broken mirror.
1979.
Sweet.....
Rob (Stanwax) has a yellow/blue projector.
Makes a beautiful white.
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Recklessly interfering with Darwin’s natural selection process, thereby extending the life cycle of dim-witted ignorami; thus perpetuating and magnifying the danger to us all, by enabling them to breed and walk amongst us, our children and loved ones.
The short answer is, "magic".
The slightly longer answer is sum frequency generation, which is basically "magic", unless you've got a degree in non-linear optics. Basically you've got a pair of IR lines lasing in the cavity, and the interference between those two lines in a suitable medium creates a beam who's wavelength is related to the beat frequency produced by the mixing of the two IR lines.
Google "Sum frequency mixing" and "Sum frequency generation" if you want more info. Now read some of the patents. Does your brain hurt yet? Because mine does... Better to just go with "magic", I think!
Adam
Congrats Matt
You bringing that to FLEM?
By the way... This works as follows:
The 808nm temperature controlled pump diode causes the ND:YVO4 crystal to lase at the two strongest lines: 1064 and 1342, this in turn is then pumped into a non-linear crystal for summation.
Frequency summation works the same as calculating parallel resistors, so 1/1342 + 1/1064 = 1/Answer
Google is your friend here... http://www.google.com/search?q=1%2F%...1%2F1064%29%29
There is a nice patent about this that I can't find now, but it explains it nicely.
--DDL
I suffer from the Dunning–Kruger effect... daily.