big tech company down in Dallas Tx. way back in the 80s. This was military stuff but I built and aligned ND Yag IR range finder / target designator lasers. It was an interesting job. I worked in a clean room and they actually paid me to learn about eye safety, different optical properties, how to align for maximum power, cooling systems, beam divergence and a bunch of other cool stuff. In our spare time we'd sometimes find stuff to blast or melt. It was actually a dangerous job for a 21 y/o kid.
So I've been out of lasers for years but then got sucked into these new fangled high powered Cree LED flashlights. From there I found the cheap-o red 650 nm laser pointers and then discovered the blue, green and purple on YouT0ob ... and all relatively cheap!!! I knew what I had to do.
Several Youtubers dropped this forum's name and it inspired me to look it up. Hopefully I can learn more about building/updating/refining modern lasers and how to have fun with them while putting safety first! Thanks for having me.
So I've been out of lasers for years but then got sucked into these new fangled high powered Cree LED flashlights. From there I found the cheap-o red 650 nm laser pointers and then discovered the blue, green and purple on YouT0ob ... and all relatively cheap!!! I knew what I had to do.
Several Youtubers dropped this forum's name and it inspired me to look it up. Hopefully I can learn more about building/updating/refining modern lasers and how to have fun with them while putting safety first! Thanks for having me.
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