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yellow laser crystals with huge pumper, why not?

Chicxulub

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I'm sure I'm not the first to have this idea, but why can't we just take the crystal assy from a 594 and put it in front of one of the huge 808nm pumps from a big burner green to get 40 or so mw of yellow? Is it practical and no one wants to cut up their yellow, or would it have a heatsink problem?

I've been pondering this ALOT lately and can't decide if it's worth trying or not....
 





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Re: yellow laser crystals with huge pumper, why no

There is a small problem with that theory, a certain size crystal can only change so much light into anohter wavelength. Think of a cheap greenie for example, you can put more current into the IR diode so the diode puts out more IR, but not much more green will come out. Once a crystal of a certain size reaches "saturation", it won't convert much more 808nm light to whatever other wavelength. This is the same with yellow and all other DPSS lasers.
 
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Re: yellow laser crystals with huge pumper, why no

Furthermore, yellows use huge pump diodes too.The reason for their low power is the process' inefficiency.
 
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Re: yellow laser crystals with huge pumper, why no

greens are 20% and sometimes 35%
blues are 1-3%
and yellows are 1%
 
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Re: yellow laser crystals with huge pumper, why no

1%...thats horrible!!

hope in 2009 we can start getting a higher percentage (and lower prices :p)
 
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Re: yellow laser crystals with huge pumper, why no

My massive argon is much worse at .05% and my small argon is worse yet at .004% ;D. I'm sure that's one reason why so many institutions are switching to DPSS

But if you really want a lot of yellow, why not combine red and green? The likes of the very attainable 250mW with beam combining is out of the question for straight DPSS.
 
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Re: yellow laser crystals with huge pumper, why no

Cyparagon said:
My massive argon is much worse at .05% and my small argon is worse yet at .004% ;D. I'm sure that's one reason why so many institutions are switching to DPSS

But if you really want a lot of yellow, why not combine red and green? The likes of the very attainable 250mW with beam combining is out of the question for straight DPSS.
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But you're talking about consumption vs output ,right? Green DPSS 20% efficiency refers to 20% 808nm converted to 532nm right? :-/ The power output/consumption ratio would be worse cause the IR diode is not 100% efficient(would be cool though ::)).
 
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Re: yellow laser crystals with huge pumper, why no

What about this laser? http://www.laserglow.com/index.php?vega  Is this laser similar to the RPL running off a 2.5W 808nm LD?  If it was running off a 2W Ir LD at 15mW yellow, that's 0.75% efficiency right?   :-?
 
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