3 Diode Host Prototype, Pictures!

IsaacT said:

Looks awesome. Somebody NEEDS to pack 3 of the 6W diodes in this. A realistic 15W handheld laser would be killer....on your batteries and wallet lol. Still, would be awesome. And the simple fact that it is possible means someone must do it.

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Thinking about doing 1 standard 9mm, and 1 - 6 Watter to keep costs down. Not sure how that would work. I'm also not sold on the 6 watters bad divergence. I have lots, and lots of options, and may start a poll looking for suggestions. The third hole will probably be filled with a red targeting lazer due to the difficulty of merging 3 beams of the same wavelength, which would requires knife edging. I'd rather have 2 overlapping beams, than 3 stacked, and I don't think this design will lend itself to easy knife edging?

How about this then.

2 x 9mm 3 W lasers
1 x 520nm 1.4W laser

The blues could combine via polarized beamsplitter cube and then add in the green using a pass blue/reflect green dichroic optic.

That would net you about 7 watts of bluish Cyan. Or a couple of 520 1.4W and one 445nm 3W would give you a very nice cyan color. Just use the PBS for the greens this time and the dichro for the blue.

I have thought about up dating the Tridentis build with three (3) of the NDB7A75's
While I am sure this could be done...Cost is a killer.....and the Adaptive optics would also need to be changed out from Anamorphics to Cylinerical Lenses.
Just TOoooo many projects....TOooooo little time and $$$

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See....

http://laserpointerforums.com/f65/tridentis-6-7w-blue-beauty-83781.html