20W's of 532nm, wow!

Check this out:

https://www.ultralasers.com/proinfo.php?productid=836&cat=3&page=1&featured

Imagine how bright that crap must be, you'd probably be blinded just by looking at the dot on a white wall! My 2.8W unit is bright and dangerous enough but this thing? oke:

What are your thoughts?

-Alex

What about this, Alex?

Vision said:

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Original post is here.

:lasergun: :lasergun:

Haha!

-Alex

Hap said:

Check this out:

https://www.ultralasers.com/proinfo.php?productid=836&cat=3&page=1&featured

Imagine how bright that crap must be, you'd probably be blinded just by looking at the dot on a white wall! My 2.8W unit is bright and dangerous enough but this thing? oke:

What are your thoughts?

-Alex

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Brightness is a perception, and brightness increase does not work they way most people imagine it works

Brightness increase ≈ √(P2/P1)

So, a 20W 532nm is 2.8 times as bright as a 2.5W, √(20W/2.5W) = 2.828

Hey Hap, looks like your getting ready to trade up to some serious "big boys" toys!

How about 200W of 532nm?




catalog.cuttingedgeoptronics.com/Asset/PA-200-QMG_Typical_Data.pdf

Upgraded version:



catalog.cuttingedgeoptronics.com/Asset/Patara_PIV_Data_Sheet.pdf

BowtieGuy said:

Hey Hap, looks like your getting ready to trade up to some serious "big boys" toys!

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Vision said:

How about 200W of 532nm?

catalog.cuttingedgeoptronics.com/Asset/PA-200-QMG_Typical_Data.pdf


Upgraded version:

catalog.cuttingedgeoptronics.com/Asset/Patara_PIV_Data_Sheet.pdf

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This is becoming quite extreme folks, long are the days of 5mW's

-Alex

What is 5 mW?

Which would you like more, 1W of yellow, or 20W of green DPSS?

MW or mW may refer to:

Games

Muddy Waters (online game), a text-based online role-playing game

Need for Speed: Most Wanted (disambiguation), two racing video games

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, a first person shooter

Other media

MW (manga), a manga series by Osamu Tezuka

Logo of Miss World, an international beauty pageant

Museums and the Web, an international conference series

MW (film), a 2009 Japanese film

Mythic Warriors, a cartoon series

Companies

Men's Wearhouse, a men's dress apparel retailer

Merriam-Webster, an American publisher of dictionaries etc.

Mountain West Conference, an American collegiate sports conference

Mokulele Airlines (IATA airline designator MW)

Places

Malawi (ISO 3166-1 country code)
Midwestern United States region
Science and technology[edit]
Megawatt, (MW) a unit of power
Milliwatt, (mW) one thousandth of a watt
.mw, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Malawi
MediaWiki, (MW) software that runs Wikipedia, Wikimedia and many other wikis
Medium Wave, (MW) frequency range of 530 to 1700 kHz (commonly called the AM band)
Molecular weight, a former term for molecular mass
Microwave, a type electromagnetic wave
Moment magnitude scale, a measure of earthquake size
Weight average molecular weight

Other uses

Master of Wine, a wine expertise qualification

LoL.

Regarding 1 W yellow and 20 W green? None of them - I would go for this: http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/print/volume-39/issue-3/world-news/powerful-cw-laser-produces-bright-guidestar.html

50 W version (or higher) of course.

http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2010/06/adaptive-optics-high-power.html

:drool::drool::drool:

I always wanted my own star. :evil:

However, I think I will be excited from my 473 nm 100 mW ordered for a while.

Definitely 1W 589nm! Been around plenty of sodium guide stars, love that golden wavelength.

@ everybody that posted, there's some really nice links posted on this thread. Will have to check back later and check them out in detail :thanks:

Hap said:

Check this out:

https://www.ultralasers.com/proinfo.php?productid=836&cat=3&page=1&featured

Imagine how bright that crap must be, you'd probably be blinded just by looking at the dot on a white wall! My 2.8W unit is bright and dangerous enough but this thing? oke:

What are your thoughts?

-Alex

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The reflection off of a streetlamp will leave you seeing spots for a while from a good 100ft away. Experienced that first hand with a Laserscope converted to show use.

That's the kind of power you want to use for projecting onto clouds.

BobMc said:

@ everybody that posted, there's some really nice links posted on this thread. Will have to check back later and check them out in detail :thanks:

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But can we make it a handheld? :crackup: :beer:

dden4012 said:

But can we make it a handheld? :crackup: :beer:

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Yep, that is the next question.

Alaskan said:

Which would you like more, 1W of yellow, or 20W of green DPSS?

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For a little more than the $31.2k cost of a 20W 532nm, without any doubt I would rather have a CNI 1W, 589.159nm +/-0.001nm Laser Guide Star system.

How much more impressive than a bright 532nm beam or dot, overall, would it be to create a sodium beacon type guide star by energizing a layer of sodium atoms that is naturally present in the mesosphere at an altitude of around 90 kilometers? Energizing sodium atoms that then re-emit the laser light, producing a glowing artificial star. Unbelievable, awesome, amazing, and way beyond cool-- right?

Creation of an artifical star in the sky at 90,000 meters altitude with a yellow laser. Now THAT is what I call, pointing out a star in the sky!

I received a quote back in 2015 for a CNI Laser Guide Star (LGS) system HPL-589.159-Q/0.2~1.2mJ/1~6W LD PUMPED ALL-SOLID-STATE AOM Q-SWITCHED LASER with HPL-PSU and water chiller for cooling laser---complete system --price was not as high as I thought it might be.

The price of the lowest cost version, bottom of the range, including delivery within USA for 1 piece, CNI, HPL-589.159-Q/0.2~1.2mJ/1W with PSU and water chiller, 589nm +/- 0.001nm, < 10% stability, was $44,000.00.