Steve...you are driftin on me buddy, he has a teaspoon of r6g powder and a 1 watt (IR unspecified) 532 laser. Im not sayin he cant do it...im just sayin he has a fair way to go to get red beamz
ring lasers are higher gain (without the tuning element) but much more complicated than a standing dye laser. (keep in mind we are talkin CW here)