Recent content by takenplaces

Thank you for the kind words and for the reminder about safety goggles. I've been reading through some of the (horror) stories that people have linked and while I don't think I'll ever experiment with very powerful lasers (50 mW is plenty laser for me), having some goggles on hand is a priority...

Hello, I am a earth science graduate student in California. I used to dabble in lasers as a hobby, mainly pushing those cheap, unfiltered 532nm green DPSS pointers as far as they could go. My first introduction to lasers was from my high school's astronomy club. Our advising professor had a...