Call that a laser? Now this is a laser!

[Xytrell]

Now, if it was CW that would be different

Oh yes. Lots of blackouts.

[Dr Laser]

Thats the chemical laser. My dad worked on one of those. They used one of those to blind the satellite. Well they couldn't blind it because before it was blinded all optics on that satellite were shattered to pieces.

[Laser Ben]

I believe you are mistaken, this laser is a flashlamp pumped Nd: Glass laser.

[heroic]

I dont think they have variance , not a warning sticker in sight

There's a huge one on the outside of the building.

The hilarious part is, since no laser is emitted from any aperture, it's only a Class I.

-J.

[White-Light]

My friend Brian presented that :-)

-J.

Seems a pretty cool dude. Looks more like the kind of guy you'd find listening to Indie music than a professor of physics.

Thats the chemical laser. My dad worked on one of those. They used one of those to blind the satellite. Well they couldn't blind it because before it was blinded all optics on that satellite were shattered to pieces.

Some details:

NIF laser pulses are generated in the MOR from a compact laser oscillator cavity made of ytterbium-doped optical fiber laser.

More details about the laser here with detailed explantions in the clickable headings. Mean very little to me as a non expert. I don't even know what type of laser this is!:

https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nif/how_nif_works/

[heroic]

Seems a pretty cool dude. Looks more like the kind of guy you'd find listening to Indie music than a professor of physics.

In the 90s he was actually in a pretty famous indie band. How about that?

[White-Light]

I've been doing my homework. Prof. Brian Cox was in D-Ream. I wouldn't really say they were Indie, but he definately has that look.

[Dr Laser]

I believe you are mistaken, this laser is a flashlamp pumped Nd: Glass laser.

Ops I just asked dad he said that this is 80s American antique. Are you sure it's flash lamps. Because is one of the worst ways to pump. Plus it makes a lot of UV which kills crystal's active zones very fast. It's impulse which means impulse wait a few minutes, impulse wait a few minutes. The sound that the flash lamp makes is a sound of bottle of champagne makes when it's being opened.

[heroic]

Ops I just asked dad he said that this is 80s American antique. Are you sure it's flash lamps.

They use xenon long-arc flashlamps with 4.3cm bores. The scatter light from the Nd:glass amplifier medium would destroy diode pumps. The laser only fires once every few minutes anyway, since the USA does not have a spare power plant to run the thing.

-J.

[Laser Ben]

Yes, I do believe they use flashlamps...

Nd: Phosphate

Mmm... KDP Crystal...