Laserscope Modification Just Finished!

[sugeek]

http://cgi.ebay.com/LASERSCOPE-813-K...mZ290343221642

It's in the OKC I don't have the desire to money for this but at least I could pick it up!

-Adam

[DMills]

Same here. There's plenty of IR leaking out to measure with a Coherent 210 meter.

I was not worried about that, but about the risk of burning the optics due to excessive intracavity power (without the Q switch and KTP fitted, there are precious few loss mechanisms.

Still, as I am not seeing any reported problems in this line, I may do it with one of the power heads from the original medical application (In fact this could be bolted in place permanently)..

Regards, Dan.

[DMills]

Does anyone out there have the definitive pinout for the ALE power supply control connector?

I have the one that is kicking around the web but it does NOT agree with the one implied by the laserscope manual.

Regards, Dan.

[weartronics]

I may do it with one of the power heads from the original medical application (In fact this could be bolted in place permanently).

Yes, having two simultaneous, continuous-reading power meters is a big advantage for alignment. Thermal heads are annoying in this regard, because the response time is slow, the output drifts as it warms up, and the output meter overheats after a few minutes.

The beamsplitter/photodiode sensor on the optical table is ideal for measuring the 532nm output, and if you have a second optical table, you can raid it for the identical photodiode amplifier and use a large area Si photodiode to measure the 1064nm leakage directly.

[prodjallen]

Here are some pics of my ilda / lasermedia patterns with the 6860 scanners, with 6580 Drivers, for my first time tuning them from scratch in 30min, what do you guys think?

P.S: Don't have blanking yet, I have a scanner, but no 6580 Amp, I forgot about it... =[ If anyone has extra drivers lemme know...

[gogu]

Can't you use the q-switch for blanking?

[Laserman532]

reserved for "professionals" only

ahhhh hell...give it a go

[weartronics]

Can't you use the q-switch for blanking?

Hey Pat, how effective do you suppose the Q-switch would be for blanking? The data sheet for the Q-switch says "Loss modulation at 1064nm > 50% at 70W RF". Is 70W the upper limit for driving this Q-switch? I would like to implement blanking using the Q-switch, but since the RF driver in the Laserscope is only 25W, I guess the loss modulation is much less than 50%, so it won't be very effective blanking.

[prodjallen]

Thats why i didnt do it with qswitch, you would still see connecting lines prob like 10mw lines or so...

-Allen

[weartronics]

Thats why i didnt do it with qswitch, you would still see connecting lines prob like 10mw lines or so...

10mW retrace lines would be > 99.99% effective blanking, which would be fine by me! But I doubt this 10mW figure, so I'm interested to hear from anybody who has actually done it.