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I was checking some of the expensive databases that my tuition helps pay for and I found a few interesting articles about green and yellow lasers. One was about using a 398.8nm diode to pump some Dy3 floro-aluminate glass to get 575nm at 17% efficiency. that would be pretty sweet. I also read about MQW laser diodes that operate in the 500-510nm range. lastly I read about using SHG on 1074nm and 1112nm using a YAG-->LBO setup to get 537nm 546nm and 556nm and they said that they are getting up to 51% efficiency. These are exciting times indeed. I hope that in the next 5 years the price of 473 starts to decline and more wavelengths pop up in the 490-510 and 530-630 ranges.