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    Talking Project "red"

    Hello!
    First, sorry for my bad english...
    I donīt write many things here, Iīm only the "small listener". Iīm more active on another forums.
    But I think I will present my new, homebuild red 3.5-4Watts laser.
    There are coubled 24 Diodelasers where one Diode will be powered with ca. 180-200mW after the Optics.
    All Diodes have their own Drivers, so a 24 Driver supply
    On the picture you only see 23 Diodes, I damaged one and havenīt change it before the pic was shot.
    I must change the mirrors and Justate the polarisation of the Laserdiodes new. At the moment the outputpower ist only ca. 2 Watts, but after changing mirrors and take some Adjustments I think I come up to 3.5 to 4Watts of nice red
    Beamdata after The Collimination Telescope is ca. 4*4mm at <1.5mrad (I think more 1.2mrad).
    Yes, the yustate takes manymany hours and you see that the mirrors wasenīt cleande (You see high power red diffused light).

    Best Regards,
    Phil
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    OMG!!! That is pure beautyfull!!!
    REALLY NICE!!!
    I want one

    Pangolin FB3 QS/LivePro/SMS2Laser
    Riya MultiBus
    Pangolin LD2000 Pro

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    WOW... that is amazing! Mind to share some insight, I have been planning on doing that.
    Where did you get the diodes? How many mW each? Did you follow any instructions?

    I would really appreciate your help, I have been wanting to work on something like this for about a year now, and havent had the time/funds, but I have been trying to do the research and come up with nothing...

    Also if you have any more pictures to share it would me MUCH appreciated... as much as I enjoy building, I also like to see how other people build... it's quite intriguing.

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    Hello!
    The Diodes are Hitachi Types who runs on 180-200mW, the optic damage 20% of power, so the direkt Diode output is ca. 216-240mW.
    The complete diode "blocks" with holders will be stabilize by Tec Elements on ca. 22Degrees, but I havenīt mount the peltier elements now (will come in future... )
    You should look for very good mirrors, my mirrors lost ca. 12% power per mirror!
    And donīt use normal Mirrorholders for it, they wouldnīt be stabile enought!
    fG
    Phillip

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    That's pretty cool and all but will it pop a balloon?

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    Hello!
    Havenīt test it with balloons, but white paper will burn, also carton...
    -Phil

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    Wow I am still in awe!

    lol I bet that one focal point wouldn't have that much trouble popping balloons.... hahahaha

    Also I assume all the diodes on one side are horizontally polarized and the other side vertically polarized... so that they match up one to one on that final mirror...?

    (Sorry I keep editing this...)

    Could you let me know what type of lenses you used for combining your final beam... like I said I am not very good with optics any help in that area would be really helpful!
    Last edited by mliptack; 10-02-2007 at 15:28.

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    Cool Now *THAT* is cool!

    Phil, I am impressed! You have put a *lot* of work into that! I'm amazed that you are getting such good beam quality after mixing the beams from so many diodes. (24!!!!)

    You should get a job working for the people at Arctos lasers! (They build laser systems that look a lot like what you have built.)

    I wonder.. How long did it take you to align all the beams?

    Adam

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    Hello!
    Thanks
    I take ca. 1 Week for build the complete laser, justating ca. 2 Days (ground justate only some hours, but I must stabilize the system so adjust 5 times new... I donīt know how to say it in english )
    Yes I was also amazed about the good beamdata!
    But I use 3 Lens optics to colliminate the beam of each diode, the beam output is 5mm, but "NO"(very small) divergence. With that I can become good beamdata! I have take a lot of experiments that I can get it stable :-)
    I think Iīm to young for work for arctos
    Greetings
    Phi

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    Damn, that is very nice. I think I may have a new project to work on!

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