Need a custom >1W 445/447 Pointer making.

Hi guys,
not been on here for a few years maybe.
It's that time of the year we go camping sleeping in tents in the countryside and I am in need of a powerful but more importantly "bright" blue laser pointer with good beam charachteristics.
In my time I had a few 473nm RPL lasers from Optotronics so have always been used to that standard of quality.
445/447nm single mode diodes are new to me but heck they are cheap!!
I'm looking for a fully assembled and ready to use laser pointer that uses either CR123 or AAA/AA batteries. Oh and if it's rechargeable, that would be a bonus too.
It's got to output atleast a stable 1 watt and more importantly will have to have good beam divergence as it will mainly be used for pointing at objects far away ( maybe half a km or so)
I have $200 to spend and this has to include shipping to the United Kingdom.
Please let me know what options are open to me, thanks

Hey there (or welcome back :thinking!

There is no 445nm single mode diode available yet for the common market. We just have the multimode diodes here.

For better divergence, you may look for a built with correction optics. But this is going to run you more than $200 shipped.

The B/S/T section is full off good offers for >1W 445nm builts

Hello there.
All handheld 445nm diode lasers have somewhat crappy beam divergence,
at half a kilometer away you will have quite a large "dot" (more a rectangle).
How large? I don't know, maybe a meter across, maybe a bit less....

That being said, these lasers are great. And greatly dangerous, too.
I suggest you browse the buy/sell/trade forum a bit, there are usually
a bunch of offers.

Besides hobbyists builds, there is one guy Garoq "Survival Lasers" who sells these
commercially on an ongoing basis.

I recently cam across this thread:

http://laserpointerforums.com/f39/fs-yobresal-1-2w-445nm-130-a-63129.html

It seems to meet all your specs. Hope I could help