Recent content by Coilgunner

In my journeys across the internet, I came across this ebay store. Their Nd:yag rods seem a bit overpriced, but everything else seems to be legit. Has anyone dealt with them. Do they appear sketchy? I ask because their prices for HR and OC mirrors for 1064nm seem to be pretty good. Also their...

So, I've found yet another few ludicrously sized laser items. These are three Nd:yag rods. I don't know what they'd be good for. Hitting baseballs with maybe? (btw, apparently these are also from the nova laser, maybe there's a yard sale going on?) I still can't post links, so can somebody...

Alright, thanks. I'll probably be building an SSY-1 just to get some experience with pulsed 1064nm lasers. Then I'll go all out on the 15J Nd:glass.

Yeah, I know that you can bleach the dopant. I'm not going to be pumping it anywhere near that much. I'm talking about damaging the substrate, the glass part of Nd:glass, so substrate from Nd:YAG doesn't really apply. Plus, I'm dealing with a really high peak power and output energy (such is the...

So, I'm contemplating building a high powered Nd:glass laser, and I read on Sam's laser faq that they apparently are only good for CW or high pulse repetition. That doesn't make any sense to me. If the thermal conductivity of the substance is low, should it be run as a low pulse repetition...

Hey, I just did some calculations to figure how much energy this thing could provide. I assumed that it would put out power proportional to its volume. Based on the energy output of a known Nd:glass laser, it looks like this thing could provide over 2kJ of light (provided you have enough pump...

Hello all. Longtime lurker first time poster. My lasers: <5mw HeNe >15W CO2 ~250mw red diode ~5mw blu-ray scraping cash together for: pulsed Nd:glass

I found this after searching around the internet for a laser forum that wasn't sponsored by any particular company. I must say the honesty that people speak laser companies here is refreshing. I'm glad this place exists

Longtime lurker, first time poster. Please don't bite my head off. This is not mine (yes, I know I could be lying seeing as this is my first post and all, but take my word for it). I was bouncing around ebay and found this absolutely titanic Nd:glass slab. I don't even want to think how much...