Recent content by octal

I'm going to be in Europe and Asia (including Shenzhen China) for the next 2 months -- is there any reason for me to buy laser stuff there vs. for delivery to USA?

Only 50mW! But I didn't find anything else explicitly rated in those wavelengths. I guess the curve is what matters, not the table of specific values.

Yeah, now I don't feel as bad about the laser outsert faceplate for my gas masks being $229 more than the clear/smoke/yellow outserts.

Yeah, I bought (oh, I can't do links) those: 190-400 560-640 also: 190-540 + 800-2000 I'll probably get Cascade lseg-bg3 for $230 or so although I'm not sure what frame style is best. They are purple and cover 512-680 OD6+ and 518-677 OD7+ and seem like the appropriate thing for yellow/green.

I'm soon going to have 488, 520, 555, 573. The short stuff is easy to find goggles for, but 573 is surprisingly hard. I've found a few but they tend to only be on the much more expensive side -- is that just because it's mostly not diode lasers in that range, and people are price insensitive...

Hi all. I'm a tech/startup/eng guy living in Puerto Rico (after living on crazy offshore platforms, in Iraq/Afghanistan, etc.). I've always wanted a "nice laser pointer", but for various reasons everything I have is either a weapon-mounted module (usually with IR + visible slaved) or a VCSEL...