I have spent the last 3-4 months building the ground work for some home brew and possibly very nice 1064/976/1319nm doubled yag/yvo4 lasers.
My first goal was to obtain a number on single and quad modulatable 0-25 watt single a quad 30watt and quad 40 watt fiber delivered laser pumps at 808nm with temperature and wave length control.
I also picked up several new 20, 40 and 60 watt 808nm laser diodes.
A few 0-100amp lab diode drivers, a slew of temp controllers , an optical table , and a number of various laserscope and other both new and used cavity optics were obtained.
Next I beat up the crystals tree obtaining a 2x2x3 3x3x5 4x4x7 KTP both coated uncoated commercially mounted etc. and the same with YVO4 and some small 2x2x12mm YAG , another recent aquisition was some thin disk YVO4 coated for blue production and lenses and LBO to go with. Lastly this week I happened upon by chance crystals for doubling 1319nm to 659nm by either RED coated and cut large KTP or the much rarer PPKTP and to complement these I found some very unusual dual side pumped angle cut brewsters YAG rods.
Well I have enough stuff to keep a lab full of physics students busy for a while what I need now is some old veteran to guide my first attempts at setting up some optical cavities on my recently aquired optical bench I have all the building blocks or most but need severely some experienced guidance to create three primary color lasers from all these pumps yag yvo4 and doublers.
Of note if with a little guidance I can piece together my first 1064nm laser resonator , I have a seemingly simple to use Continuum Laser Second Harmonic Generator labeled as follows: Continuum Lasers T-2 SHG 20mm. It is a nice compact little delrin oven with antireflective entrance and exit optics it has a built in heater and regulator with some external 24vdc gold plated contacts I have a second of these in pieces that came that way with some type of 13.5mm sq by 20 mm long crystal that I will assume is Lithium Triborate.
Anyone out there with the humility is welcome to fuel my pursuits please!I need direction and guidance!