Hi all,
I happened yo "aquire" a couple crystals which I'm hoping to pump into a nice green output, but due to my admitted inexperience, i'm not sure if I have the right crystals, or "exactly" what to do with them to align them into producing a visible green beam output from the 808nm 1/2 - 1 wat C-mount laser diodes I've also recently aquired.
It seems i have enough "stuff" to make something usefull, now I just have to put it all together, and I'd rather look like a moron and ask questions that "BE" a moron and ruin something!
I've "read" several tutorials, and as some of you probably know already I've postedquite a few times here asking questions, and have received alot of great help and direction, thanks for that to those that have helped me thus far!
I'm attaching a couple pics here so you can see for yourself what I've just received from Atom Optics in Asia, then maybe you can make some suggestions on how I can use these crystals to my benifit.
One of them (the ND:YV04) is marked with the letter "A", I assume to indicate an "axis" or something? Perhaps someone could explaine that to me further. The KTP crystal also seems to have a marking on it, kinda looks like an "L" maybe, not sure what it is, and the corner looks like it is nicked off or something, so I"m not sure if these crystals are even the finished product and need to be further cut and or polished before they can be used or something.
Thanks!
I happened yo "aquire" a couple crystals which I'm hoping to pump into a nice green output, but due to my admitted inexperience, i'm not sure if I have the right crystals, or "exactly" what to do with them to align them into producing a visible green beam output from the 808nm 1/2 - 1 wat C-mount laser diodes I've also recently aquired.
It seems i have enough "stuff" to make something usefull, now I just have to put it all together, and I'd rather look like a moron and ask questions that "BE" a moron and ruin something!
I've "read" several tutorials, and as some of you probably know already I've postedquite a few times here asking questions, and have received alot of great help and direction, thanks for that to those that have helped me thus far!
I'm attaching a couple pics here so you can see for yourself what I've just received from Atom Optics in Asia, then maybe you can make some suggestions on how I can use these crystals to my benifit.
One of them (the ND:YV04) is marked with the letter "A", I assume to indicate an "axis" or something? Perhaps someone could explaine that to me further. The KTP crystal also seems to have a marking on it, kinda looks like an "L" maybe, not sure what it is, and the corner looks like it is nicked off or something, so I"m not sure if these crystals are even the finished product and need to be further cut and or polished before they can be used or something.
Thanks!