Hi all,
I've been casually interested in lasers for a long time. When I was in school in the mid 2000's I interned at an NMR lab that was using lasers + rubidium to polarize xenon. (Hyperpolarization if you are interested)
No stranger to electronics, been building homemade drone's for a bit, built a 3d printer, working on a DIY CNC mill. Software engineer by trade.
I went on an internet tangent and scooped up 3 lasers from Sanwu. 80mW green, 100mW violet, 200mW red.
I also scooped up a few 445 diodes from ebay. A few 2W M140s and a 7W NUBM44-V2.
Not sure what I'm going to do with them just yet. Will definitely use the green for astronomy. And I will run young's double slit experiment at some point.
Beyond that, I just got the powerful 445 diodes because they seemed like a cool thing to have, they may just sit in a box for a while.
If anyone has suggestions for interesting things to do with lasers I'm all ears. Will poke around the forums a bit, but I'm really here because my ADD got the better of me one night and now I have a 9th hobby.
I've already got a pair of OD6+ goggles on the way.
Excited at the possibility of trying out a neat experiment or two.
I've been casually interested in lasers for a long time. When I was in school in the mid 2000's I interned at an NMR lab that was using lasers + rubidium to polarize xenon. (Hyperpolarization if you are interested)
No stranger to electronics, been building homemade drone's for a bit, built a 3d printer, working on a DIY CNC mill. Software engineer by trade.
I went on an internet tangent and scooped up 3 lasers from Sanwu. 80mW green, 100mW violet, 200mW red.
I also scooped up a few 445 diodes from ebay. A few 2W M140s and a 7W NUBM44-V2.
Not sure what I'm going to do with them just yet. Will definitely use the green for astronomy. And I will run young's double slit experiment at some point.
Beyond that, I just got the powerful 445 diodes because they seemed like a cool thing to have, they may just sit in a box for a while.
If anyone has suggestions for interesting things to do with lasers I'm all ears. Will poke around the forums a bit, but I'm really here because my ADD got the better of me one night and now I have a 9th hobby.
I've already got a pair of OD6+ goggles on the way.
Excited at the possibility of trying out a neat experiment or two.
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I also do astronomy as well. Live in the city though, so have to be really careful about shining any of my lasers into the sky.
