Green Laser + Red Laser + Crystal Sphere =...

[theycallmechad]

My brother came back in town, and we had some fun with my laser and crystal globe last night. It was a lot of fun.

# 3, 4, 5, 6, 11 used the green laser only. I never knew the green laser, when shined through a crystal cube, would turn red.

#1, 4, 5, and 12 are my favorite.

Enjoy

 

[Benm]

The 4th picture demonstrates it very well: there is something in that glass/crystal cube that fluoresces under green light, resulting in a yellow-looking beam, that exits green, so its not actually converted.

It would be interested to see what that cube does when lit by bluray, could be very pretty.

 

[JellyCrab]

I have a pinkish marble, and shining a green through it (I don't have it, it was my friend's) made a red line. I was so weird!

 

[Benm]

Thats fluorescence alright... some materials and dyes will downconvert 532 nm light to yellow, orange or red quite readily. Often those materials react to bluray even more, resulting in a near invisible 405 nm beam going in, but with rather spectacular effects of the beam inside the material... try some things!

 

[3zuli]

cool! I love pics #2, 8 and 9

 

[Uberstrobe]

And I hope people don't do this with the 445nm diodes without some serious eye protection and all doors to the room locked with a sign on the door etc etc.

 

[DJNY]

You have something like this? Beautiful White Crystal Sphere Carving Ball 52mm - eBay (item 250641918867 end time Jun-06-10 09:33:45 PDT)

Where did you buy yours?


btw: nice pics!

 

[Trevor]

I love how some materials do that; I discovered that a dye in my afghan fluoresces bright yellow/orange under 532nm. Discovered it by accident when aligning my Viasho labby.

-Trevor