Dye Laser on Ebay

[Meatball]

$400 is not a bad price right there..

(3) Spectra-Physics 375B dye lasers with dye circulator - eBay (item 330511867228 end time Dec-31-10 21:55:44 PST)

 

[Leodahsan]

very interesting and a unique unit to a laser lover
they are very strong (powerful), aren't they (the dye lasers)?

 

[Prototype]

The pump lasers usually are. You can achieve incredible powers with them (the PARSEC laser used to stimulate the atmosphere is a 13W+ 589nm dye laser pumped by 40W of 532nm.) You'd need an incredibly powerful argon or DPSS setup to pump that properly.

 

[00Giorge]

Ouch! $200 shipping costs.

 

[Prototype]

Well, there are three of them and they're not exactly tiny and aren't the most robust of devices.

 

[aryntha]

Heh, shipping alone is $200. I'd love to play with one of these, but none of the lasers I have likely could sufficiently pump the thing.

 

[00Giorge]

How big are they?

 

[aryntha]

That unit is probably about the size of, say, a toaster oven. Looks smaller in the pic, but it's also 3 heads + 1 circulator, so 4 total pieces.

 

[00Giorge]

Seems like you could get it shipped for less than $200. We ship hydraulic pumps (460v motor 119lbs) cheaper than 2 bills.

EDIT: 1,111 posts! I'll never see that again.

 

[aryntha]

They're not supposed to, but ebay shipping padding is still pretty common :\ For an auction like that I'd say "Buyer pays actual shipping costs" and give an estimate.

 

[TTerbo]

I think goninan would like that

 

[heruursciences]

I had a few of these and the threshold of a well used and abused one was about 300mw of multiline argon. You will need different dyes than R6G to drive it with 445nm though.