Whitish if pulsed, pinkish if CW, I thought.
You are always quoting me bud, I can't even get a minute to fix my post! But yes, I see now. I had it backwards. Funny thing is, I corrected Cyparagon on this very thing last year telling him CW were whitish when he had it backwards
Hi, Thank you for your suggestion,however Edmunds was one of the seemingly endless companies that I have already contacted and they told me that they specifically dont make optics for Ruby lasers and he gave me a very long laundry list of companies(mainly in China) that apparently do but the majority of them dont believe in replying and the couple that did,one will sell me just the output coupler for $1400.00 U.S. plus shipping and the other was $2300.00U.S. for just one mirror and then there are complete bullshit companies such as Thorlabs that will make me a proper set of mirrors and they only want $5600.00 U.S. each mirror. I would have thought that the Ruby Rods would have been the nearly impossible and cost prohibitive laser component to get but I can practically buy a truck load of all sorts of Ruby Rods for next to nothing but these dam Mirrors are stupidly expensive and almost impossible to find, at least on the used market.I read that Edmund Optics now has the ability to custom polish and coat crystal ends which would eliminate the need for external mirrors.
Maybe try cooling some 405nm laser diodes with pelters to get it to drift closer to 400nm. Idk if it would work, but sounds better than some leds. I dont think the leds will output enough to actually cause it to lase. You need some massive dumps to get that rod to lase.I have read quite a bit in a few months after getting the Ruby Rod. The maths is way out of my league.
There doesnt seem to be a simple answer
I might just order some high power 405nm 10 watt LED's and see what happens. Violet is double the price of Green. But 550nm LED's are not easily available. I will aim for about a 600 Watt pulse at 405nm and hopefully something will happen. It will be pretty easy to drive the LED's with a pulser.
I have read about the CW Ruby Rod laser but it seems like it never made it into a commercial product.
Hi Steve, are you absolutely positive they will work as in did you actually try the kryton mirrors in a Ruby Laser configuaration and of course are you selling any of those mirrors?Krypton Laser dual line OC for the red lines... Will have enough reflectivity to get you going. I just happen to have a box of them.
Steve