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Hey guys,
I just went to a laser exhibit in the Baltimore Convention Center and saw tons of cool stuff including:
-Fiber-Coupled Continuous Spectrum White Laser
-Optical Tweezers (a device that uses laserlight to trap particles in the micron/submicron level... I also took the short-course about this)
-Fiber-Coupled 593.5nm laser capable of 3 watts plus a couple of other multiwatt fiber-coupled fixed wavelength lasers, all pretty rare wavelengths.
-Ti:Saphire 5W? wavelength tunable laser capable of 280nm-2400nm without any "wavelength gaps" while tuning.
I would have taken pictures of all of this stuff and more, but there was a no-picture-policy with all of the companies. I did manage to convince one person to let me take a picture of their huge DPSS array. The power levels of these ranged from 200mW-1.5W, the average price was $2000-$3000, and the rarer wavelengths even ran up to $15000, IIRC. The "laser pyramids" were so close that the different colors affected each other (you can't see the true beauty of the 561nm), but it's still neat to see the rainbow.
-Jakob
I just went to a laser exhibit in the Baltimore Convention Center and saw tons of cool stuff including:
-Fiber-Coupled Continuous Spectrum White Laser
-Optical Tweezers (a device that uses laserlight to trap particles in the micron/submicron level... I also took the short-course about this)
-Fiber-Coupled 593.5nm laser capable of 3 watts plus a couple of other multiwatt fiber-coupled fixed wavelength lasers, all pretty rare wavelengths.
-Ti:Saphire 5W? wavelength tunable laser capable of 280nm-2400nm without any "wavelength gaps" while tuning.
I would have taken pictures of all of this stuff and more, but there was a no-picture-policy with all of the companies. I did manage to convince one person to let me take a picture of their huge DPSS array. The power levels of these ranged from 200mW-1.5W, the average price was $2000-$3000, and the rarer wavelengths even ran up to $15000, IIRC. The "laser pyramids" were so close that the different colors affected each other (you can't see the true beauty of the 561nm), but it's still neat to see the rainbow.
-Jakob