Coherent Innova 70C Purelight Star II in action (also show)

[masterpj]

Isn't the superior color balance coming from the modulation method and not necessarily the ion source? Would solid state or even direct diode sources produce a better color balance than they do now if they were modulated with a pcaom? This is not to take anything from this set up. I really like it and wish I had three phase power available here.

Get a phase converter and a high current single phase power source : ) http://www.northamericaphaseconverte...FQeTfgodfwYHGA

The modulation is covered by the PCAOM yes the french A+A is also less polorization sensitive I recall and more efficient then say a NEOS and with the sollinger colorIT the adjustements are done digitally. I'm still all for having a single polorized DPSS projector with a PCAOM sometime... I will make it happen sometime I'm sure.

Anyway, this ion laser is so much more interesting than a multimode diode laser! The beam characteristics should be much better as well. What are the near field and far field beam dimensions?

I'd have to check this as I really don't know. I usually don't do these measurements even. The beam characteristics and beam profile are amazing though (perfectly round beam)!
Better then any single mode diode

[buffo]

I also had someone point something out to me at a FLEM a couple years ago. I brought a lexel 85 and someone notice that the images had a great deal of speckle whereas the solid state projectors appeared to have very little. I thought this was an interesting observation.

Longer coherence length of the argon, maybe?

Adam

[Vidal Wolf]

Kinda understand why Im an ion fan ? =) My Purelight star kicks butt over my diode rigs for color mixing.
Yeah, three phase is hard to come by, and waters in short supply here in California, but, hell, Its your pics that make my point. =)
Star C heads are great.
Ive worked with a star-C and star II-C. Both great whites!