Cool beam shots!

[Schrecken_Licht]

I finally got a fog machine & and a diffraction grating and had a little fun in my garage tonight:

The green predominates because it's a bit more powerful than the red and the green + naturally appears brighter. I had my argon going too but I didn't have time to try to get the beam aligned to be able to hit the diffraction grating with the others. I had the HeNe going too but the beam's too wimpy to really be seen well. I'll try the argon alignment another time. I've also got one of those tunnel/liquid sky devices and I'm going to get that going soon and take some photos of that.

 

[MarioMaster]

that's a lot of laz0rbeams

threads like these make me wanna order a mega matrix

 

[Dr_Evil]

Nice pics! I hope you had shades on to cover all those wavelengths.

 

[thejunkmonger]

And people ask me what it is I find so interesting with lasers WOW

 

[Switch]

Nice pics! I hope you had shades on to cover all those wavelengths.

Lol, what would be the point then? See a bunch of dim dots on the wall? ;D

 

[rog8811]

I think a round of applause is in order, nice pictures

Regards rog8811

 

[Petrovski]

Yeah indeed. Great pictures. Love the colors.

 

[lazerguy]

Great beamshots there, love the way the three colors spread out together! I definitley need to get a fog machine for my lasers, lazors + fog = cool! Which diffraction grating is used in the pics?

 

[Zom-B]

DAMN that's a phat pack of beamz

I must do something like this too. No fog machine though so I'll have to wait for the weather to be foggy.

 

[FireMyLaser]

Use that in the LPF-movie!

 

[MarioMaster]

I oughta slap everyone here that doesn't have a fog machine ;D they make lasers of even low power amazing and high power lasers simply brilliant

 

[Switch]

I oughta slap everyone here that doesn't have a fog machine  ;D they make lasers of even low power amazing and high power lasers simply brilliant  

You always pick on fog-machineless people :

 

[Schrecken_Licht]

I oughta slap everyone here that doesn't have a fog machine ;D they make lasers of even low power amazing and high power lasers simply brilliant

I dragged my feet for some time (don't really know why - fog machines can be had for less than $50 - cheaper than most any laser you'd buy) before I got a fog machine, but I'm glad I did. A 100mw beam you can barely see in a dark room will look like a light saber!

As for the diffraction grating - I got a very economically priced plastic one from this Ebay seller:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190223751782&ssPageName=STRK:MEW A:IT&ih=009
Seller is in Australia but I got the diffraction grating in less than 5 days here in the US. The one I have is also a 2nd but you can't tell there's anything wrong with it.

Thanks for the compliments - I take a lot of pics of my lasers but those are some of the best (at least best beam shots) I've taken.

 

[diachi]

They are really nice shots, and BTW people you can get a Diffraction grating from a projector, I took apart an old Philips and removed all the optics and there is one which seams to do some diffraction patterns ( I've not tested with a laser yet lol, just tested with focused blue light from the beam splitter I also removed )

Ill post some pics of the optics along with my laser pics ( sometime this week )


Diachi

 

[bobobob121]

Nice pics! I hope you had shades on to cover all those wavelengths.

yea, thats called a blindfold. lol

 

[Benm]

That looks really cool - try pointing that skywards on a foggy night to seriously upset the locals