Recent content by nanicoar

So this is your way of agreeing that the showstopper you proposed isn't actually a showstopper at all? Just making sure. :lasergun:

How does lens diameter affect that balance?

I have been setting up the tooling I need to build an efficient, non-portable CO2 laser for the application of sintering glass. A portable version is difficult to ignore! A rule-of-thumb says that you get up to 80W per meter of 100 torr sealed CO2 optical cavity, but with Q-switching this can...

I don't have much experience of anything but daydreaming and reading wikipedia, but from the little information I've gathered it seems storing HF in a jar is akin to putting TNT in a milk bottle in a fridge. I don't see this as a problem, and encouraged by the fact that HF is commonly used in...