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What's to stop someone like me from buying a standard, cheap, $20-dollar, 5mw, green laser, taking it apart (as carefully as possible), and using the Nd:YVO4 and the KTP frequency doubler out of it, and using those with an 808nm diode I find online? If anything I said doesn't make sense, or was incorrect, or anything like that, please let me know. I don't want to seem like I think I really know anything about green lasers, especially since I know that I don't know much. My dad mentioned that IR light doesn't really react to standard glass lenses like visible light does. Is that true? If so, how would/does one focus IR light? For that matter, where could I learn about green and IR lasers, and the properties of IR light, etc.? Thanks!
EDIT: Along with green and IR lasers, and IR light in general, I'd also like to learn about the crystals used in green lasers, Nd:YVO4, frequency doublers, etc., so I can understand these darned charts about crystals, and what-not; I don't understand doping, or its significance, or anything like that, and thusly whether higher or lower percent is better. Any links to available information would be the BOMB. Thanks!
EDIT: Along with green and IR lasers, and IR light in general, I'd also like to learn about the crystals used in green lasers, Nd:YVO4, frequency doublers, etc., so I can understand these darned charts about crystals, and what-not; I don't understand doping, or its significance, or anything like that, and thusly whether higher or lower percent is better. Any links to available information would be the BOMB. Thanks!