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Anyone ever see this video? Just stumbled upon it and found this pretty interesting so I thought I would share it with you all
Anyway here it is:
-Alex
Anyway here it is:
-Alex
Yep, standard dye laser. They're incredibly complex to engineer and maintain. Major amounts of money right there.
Got an estimate? So many things laser related are incredibly expensive. Hard to put it in perspective without a number though. Thousands? 10s of Thousands?.....
*gulp* ......
100,000+?
Hmm, a roughly estimated guess for the unit shown (just the pumps and yellows, not the blue and red decks):
Flashlamp primary pump (optics, cooling, power supply): $8000-$10,000
Nd:YAG stage (optics, q switch, controller, cooling): $12,000
KTP (532nm) stage (optics, mounts, cooling): $4000
Dye Stage (reservoir, fluid pumps, cavity cell, cooling, fluid dynamics, optics): $14,000
So you're looking at around $40k.
Wow! And I know this is most likely going to sound like a silly question but I am genuinely interested and want to learn haha
Instead of such a bulky laser, why dosen't he just use a powerful 532nm laser instead, and aim it into the "glass"? Won't that work just the same?
-Alex