IONs : Projectors/Tables that re-use the PCAOM waste beam

[Picasso]

Does anyone have some pics of projectors or beam table setups that use the waste beam from the pcaom? Are most of these setups with the pcaom sideways? It seems I will need to have a table 2' long if I want to re-drive that waste beam to another use.

[sugeek]

Not the best picture but you can see the MM1 a bit in front of the PCAOM on the left that goes through a pinhole to a LUMIA wheel. If I can find my actual pictures of that projector I will post a few more.

A non PC-AOM pic:



-Adam

[aijii]

we have a neos recombiner crystal to get the waste beam colour convergent if you are interested. never got around to using it on our argon

[dsli_jon]

Hey Mr C -

Are most of these setups with the pcaom sideways? It seems I will need to have a table 2' long if I want to re-drive that waste beam to another use.

??? No, just pick it off, man! If you pick it with an equi-tri prism (∆) on a rotatable-post, you should be able to keep it fairly 'tight', if you wanna say, shoot it a-ways down to a wheel or beam-rail... I guess it will depend, too, on what you're planning to 'do' with the waste... lumia? dichro-picks / splitters? how far-away from the AOM?etc...

The PCAOM 'waste' is soooo-not 'waste'... it's just the 'other half'... ...here's a bit of 'inspiration' from a Laser Images CSL... njoy...

(...this is all 'vertically-oriented', btw....)

ciao..
J

[Picasso]

Ok I've looked at that pic for ten mins now. It gets feed to fiber and out to a luma wheel? Is that what the blue section is? Heck of allot going on in the box!

[dsli_jon]

Hey Mr C -

Ok...It gets feed to fiber and out to a luma wheel?

Depends on which 'pickoff' the laserist chose... This thing was like a 'laser grand piano'...options and combination-possibilities, galore...

Is that what the blue section is?

That's one of the most mindblowing optical fx I've ever seen - Fiber-turret - *pure genius*, from those brilliant Laser Image employees of the past... it does stuff like this: (..not the animated b-fly-part or the 'auroras'...the other yummies......

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...27973723_n.jpg
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._5586052_n.jpg
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._5567590_n.jpg

...etc... and, you could 'defocus' it, on the fly, to get even more amazing fx... think: citylights, at night, 'blurred-out' by depth-of-field... spellbinding fx...

Heck of allot going on in the box!

I'm pretty sure CSL stood for 'Cream your Stinkin Laserpants'...

ciao
j

[Bradfo69]

Sooo..... this is our eventual plan for "waste" from the Sabre right??
LOL

[mixedgas]

(...this is all 'vertically-oriented', btw....)

WTF cant the Chinese sell me one of those as a clone...

(Sarcastic, its fantastic)

Steve