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Home-Made Laser Diode
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If you are good at reflow work and have a laser die you can, but it's still incredibly difficult.
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A reflow station is $200 or so on eBay, and I'm not sure where to find a laser die anymore, with Chris no longer selling them.
:thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking:
Well your going to need a dpss system/module.
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the beam is orange only when in your lava lamp (by fluorescence)... how will this work unless u fill your whole room with lava lamp fluid? 
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Hmmm, read this: What a laser diode is and this: nonlinear optics and this: Fluorescence. After that think again about doing it yourself a laser diode.
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What if you try a test 1st? Find a small glass hollow flat sided container. Glue the glass together if you need or shop around for something glass, hollow, that has 2 flat sides.
Next, fill the space with the lava lamp fluid. Now fire your laser through it and see what color comes out the other side on the wall. Then decide it you want to spend all that money on equipment.
Next, fill the space with the lava lamp fluid. Now fire your laser through it and see what color comes out the other side on the wall. Then decide it you want to spend all that money on equipment.
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What all these guys are saying , in short, is :
NO!
If it were only that simple...
Sorry, but making your own laser diode is next to impossible. It requires soldering a small (0.5 x0.5 x0.005 mm small) laser die to a brass base , then making an electronic connection.
You can't do it.
For $50, you can buy an awsome first started kit for PHR 100mW 405nm build, or have very nice green laser pen build.
Leave exotic laser diodes to researchers. They need to invent them first.
NO!
If it were only that simple...
Sorry, but making your own laser diode is next to impossible. It requires soldering a small (0.5 x0.5 x0.005 mm small) laser die to a brass base , then making an electronic connection.
You can't do it.
For $50, you can buy an awsome first started kit for PHR 100mW 405nm build, or have very nice green laser pen build.
Leave exotic laser diodes to researchers. They need to invent them first.
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