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I think it's a very impressive bit of work!!
Seems a very pragmatic way to get a lot of red. However combining dozens of 1/10 to 1/5 watt diode lasers to get 5-6 watts of red this way must be a lot of work. You do get quite a bit of redundancy though - even if a few of the diodes expire during a show I doubt it would be noticeable.
I don't completely understand the concept though.. I'm assuming the ideal is to align all of the individual diode spots into an ordered raster, and that then gets shrunk down by some optics to an approximated single laser spot? From a distance > 20 meters the spot looks uniform and gaussian! Since each each individual singlemode diode laser has decent beam quality I imagine this method may have advantages over attempting to tame multiple multimode diode beams similarly.
About Arctos, sounds like you had some drama them - care to elaborate what happened?
Still trying to understand the concept. I see that you are ordering all the individual laser spots into some sort of grid. Two parallel grids actually, one of which gets it polarization flipped (90 degree offset between fast and slow diode axis.. or 180??). At that point I'm not certain what's happening. Is that grid somehow shrunk down and projected, or is each element (diode) in the grid of spots brought to a common focus??
I'll do some more reading when I've got time. This is an excellent idea for a projector, however if I understand this correctly it wouldn't make an outstanding burning laser.