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ALC60X Argon (my first argon laser!)

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Thats pretty cool - I might have to see if mine will light up a match :)

I know my dpss lasers do that trick, but be pretty neat to do it with the argon.
 





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no offense to the other blue owners out there, but this is the sickest blue laser i have ever seen.
 
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Wow, very nice argon bryce! You got a good one on your hands, 100mw is a damn nice number! :beer:
 
James_Lehman

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silvercookie said:
no offense to the other blue owners out there, but this is the sickest blue laser i have ever seen.
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That's because it's not blue!

It is perhaps as many as 6 or 7 lines of color mixed together; including a couple of greens.

James. :)
 
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Here's some pics I took using a diffraction gradient. (click the link before each pic to see the full resolution picture)

Some at idle:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3431777/Lasers/ALC60X Argon/DSC00949.JPG
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3431777/Lasers/ALC60X Argon/DSC00952.JPG
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Now at full power!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3431777/Lasers/ALC60X Argon/DSC00956.JPG
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3431777/Lasers/ALC60X Argon/DSC00957.JPG
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vk2fro

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Far out bryce those last full power shots look excellent.

I might steal one for my desktop.

*sigh* one week till I get my new camera, then I'll need a diffraction grating, and some scanners!

Edit: your laser now adorns the desktop of a pc all they way over in Sydney Australia (well the last diffraction grating shot, cropped a bit) :)
 
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bryce007

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vk2fro said:
Far out bryce those last full power shots look excellent.

I might steal one for my desktop.

*sigh* one week till I get my new camera, then I'll need a diffraction grating, and some scanners!
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I'm thinking about picking up some scanners as well!
 
James_Lehman

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You're kidding. Right?

You know that the phosphores in a CRT, the color filters in an LCD and colored LEDs are not pure wavelengths. Right?

Laser lines are pure wavelengths. That's one of the things that makes them so unique.

James. :)
 
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Nice laser. I will have to see if mine will light matches. Sadly I don't have a way to measure a multiline.
 
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James_Lehman said:
You know that the phosphores in a CRT, the color filters in an LCD and colored LEDs are not pure wavelengths. Right?
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Precisely. That means this sentence is not blue. It is a mixture of many different blue/indigo/violet/green colors, right?
 
James_Lehman

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Cyparagon said:
Precisely. That means this sentence is not blue. It is a mixture of many different blue/indigo/violet/green colors, right?
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I think it qualifies as correct colloquial English to call it blue. Most things that you see and identify as blue are way more than a single wavelength of light. Some people like to make an analogy between sound and light because both of them are measure in frequency or the inverse; wavelength, But that's really not such a great analogy. We can hear about 10 octaves of sound; that is frequencies from about 16Hz to 2 to the 10th times that; up to +16KHz. On the other hand we can't even see one full octave of light from about 700nm to 400nm is less than 2 to 1. Is that nonsensical, confusing and not answering your question enough? :rolleyes:

James. :)
 
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diachi

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Alshere said:
Nice laser. I will have to see if mine will light matches. Sadly I don't have a way to measure a multiline.
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You only have an optical LPM? Someone here might be willing to lend you a meter or meet up with you to meter the laser. :D
 
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