Recent content by Kriogenic

i had some of these laying around 250 Silver Foil Laser 4" x 2" Blank Sheet Labels | eBay just printed one of these labels on one of those and cut the label to size, they say only prints black but i think mine looks nice even printed in colour. I used a laser printer to print on the foil...

Hey there, My names Andrew and I live in Sydney, Australia. Its hard to be a laser enthusiast in Australia without all lasers being custom built\housed as our laws only allow for 1mW lasers. I have just finished University and become a Photonic Engineer. I have built a few laser pointers in...

Well considering I said nothing about the diode magically dying without a heatSINK, I was more refering to how easy it is to fry while soldering if you heat the diode up to much. but either way I spend my time doing my job not critiquing spelling errors or trying to put people down.

I am new to this forum, however I am a photonics engineer. I live in Australia and I work with lasers above 1W every day for a living... yet outside the workplace its illigal to hold in my hands a pointer of over 1mW... I'm not arguing with the law but for a laser hobbiest in Australia things...

Yay for first post, I am a photonics engineer and I see your building a 1W 445nm blue as your first laser... Please don't take it lightly and wear proper eye protection. Your eyes are worth more then $10 as I do not see any specs for the pair on ebay, though I am not saying they will not work. I...