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Well...Some progress with the testing of the Cylindrical lenses supplied by Tomorrow Systems. See attached pics. Sorry I have bad results with the farfield shots showing the beam geometry. Blue saturation issue as typical. Perhaps I will try some type of camera lens filter ?? Regardless, the metrics posted are accurate. It should be no surprise that cylindrical optics do correct the elipiticity of the NDB 7875 LD. Not perfect....but better.
Test was done a 1.5A at 4.5 VDC using the NDB 7875 LD. Farfield target at 25' (7.62M) from LD aperture. LD geometry at aperture @ 2mm. Collimation lens used is the O-like glass. Cylindrical lens to lens positioned at 12.64mm separation. NO detectable loss of power thru the TS optics was seen. Meter used is a calibrated Sciencetech 362.
1) Beam geometry at 25' (7.62M) with no TS Cylindrical lenses observed at 15.2mm wide by 3.75mm tall. This equates to a 1.73 mRad.
2) Beam geometry at 25' (7.62M) with TS Cylindrical lenses observed at 8.34mm wide by 3.75mm tall This equates to a .831 mRad.
The take-away should be that these Cylindericals work as advertised. That said, I think the real benefit of using Cylindrical lenses will be with the diodes with very bad raw divergence. Great candidate's for the Cylindricals would be;
1) NDB 7A75 3.5W Blue
2) NDG 7475 1W Green
3) NDG 700 .7W Green
4) HL 63193 .7W Red
4) ML507P73 .5W Red
These above laser diodes are the " Bar Generators " and really need adaptive/corrective optics. I have the HL 63193 Red and will give it a trial with the TS optics. Expect some results by mid-week.... All this testing will support the end geometry of the nex-gen EZ adaptor....so that is where this is leading ! Oh...And...Lite'em up !
Test was done a 1.5A at 4.5 VDC using the NDB 7875 LD. Farfield target at 25' (7.62M) from LD aperture. LD geometry at aperture @ 2mm. Collimation lens used is the O-like glass. Cylindrical lens to lens positioned at 12.64mm separation. NO detectable loss of power thru the TS optics was seen. Meter used is a calibrated Sciencetech 362.
1) Beam geometry at 25' (7.62M) with no TS Cylindrical lenses observed at 15.2mm wide by 3.75mm tall. This equates to a 1.73 mRad.
2) Beam geometry at 25' (7.62M) with TS Cylindrical lenses observed at 8.34mm wide by 3.75mm tall This equates to a .831 mRad.
The take-away should be that these Cylindericals work as advertised. That said, I think the real benefit of using Cylindrical lenses will be with the diodes with very bad raw divergence. Great candidate's for the Cylindricals would be;
1) NDB 7A75 3.5W Blue
2) NDG 7475 1W Green
3) NDG 700 .7W Green
4) HL 63193 .7W Red
4) ML507P73 .5W Red
These above laser diodes are the " Bar Generators " and really need adaptive/corrective optics. I have the HL 63193 Red and will give it a trial with the TS optics. Expect some results by mid-week.... All this testing will support the end geometry of the nex-gen EZ adaptor....so that is where this is leading ! Oh...And...Lite'em up !
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