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OK so be gentle, as although I've been dabbling in lasers for some time now I'm still learning the ins and outs of optics and the complex processes that go on right from the diode, to optics and solid state pumping and the likes. My question is this - I understand that a common 532nm green DPSS...

Now i know you pointer veterans are going to say "oh no, here we go again", but bear with us- I'd just like to clear up a point, the "new 2008" range of spymodex claim to be guaranteed IR filtered. So, I've bought one, claiming 300mW (still not convinced it's that much though). I went and...

Well I had to think of something to house a few pointers in one case! Case is half price in Argos, £4.99. Add an old piece of foam and Bob's your father's brother!

Any idea if 445 and 473nm diodes are being utilised in any products yet? Be a while before we can afford them though I imagine, $2800 for an engineering sample of an NDB7112E 500mW 445nm diode from Nichia apparently! At least there'll be no "IR" arguments like there are with DPSS! Look the...

Bought one of these recently on fleabay, i think most of you will probably have heard of the seller, and straight away i know you're all looking at the link and screaming in horror! Yes I know, I was mugged probably! But - he makes two statements - "guaranteed 300mW unmodified", and "new 2008...

My new blue pointer has arrived, bought from a Laser importer in Italy and sent to me in UK. It's 50mW, although I've not been able to confirm as I don't have a power meter - yet! I'm told it's a CNI - which by checking on the CNI site I assume is a GLP-473. Also looks exactly the same as the...

Just curious to know if there's any guides out there that could indicate nominal/maximum currents by the max burn speed of the drive they're taken from? I know every diode is different, but just rough figures of what you'd drive the diode at from different speeds of drive, as when most people...

Reading all the controversy about these NewWish pointers, i thought i would take one completely apart, to see exactly what's what. I was helped a little by one of the batch i bought not being fixed together at the front properly, so the assembly just slid apart! Here's one of them in its...