Is possible a "Home Made Laser Supercontinuum" ?

[Fred_DASP]

Is possible a "Home Made Laser Supercontinuum" - or While Laser?

 

[potatorage]

Re: Is possible a "Home Made Laser Supercontinuum"

Yeah, it's not so hard, assuming you're talking about a white laser.
There's a tut somewhere here.

 

[Switch]

Re: Is possible a "Home Made Laser Supercontinuum"

Yeah, it's not so hard, assuming you're talking about a white laser.
There's a tut somewhere here.

Yea, you just need some easily obtainable household items that you can get for pocket change(like A LOT of pocket change....1000s and 1000s ;D)

 

[pwnstar]

Re: Is possible a "Home Made Laser Supercontinuum"

you need to combine the beams of a red, green, and blue laser in the right proportions to get white. so yea, its expensive...

 

[likewhat]

Re: Is possible a "Home Made Laser Supercontinuum"

Supercontiuum refers to something that is a contiuum, not white. You can make white with red,green, and blue. Supercontiuum is created when a short laser pulse that usually already has a large spectral bandwidth undergoes very strong nonlinear interactions and due mostly to massive self-phase modulation is spectrally broadened over the entirety of the visible spectrum.

You can make one at home but you have to start with a very short pulse laser, which is usually expensive and/or hard to make yourself if you dont know what you are doing.

Just make a white laser from RGB lasers like the guy above me said.

 

[jamilm9]

Re: Is possible a "Home Made Laser Supercontinuum"

yeah it costs about $250(if you replace blue with blu)

 

[Fred_DASP]

Re: Is possible a "Home Made Laser Supercontinuum"

So, the 'supercontinuum' is almost impossible to do at home.
I know that we need a femtosecond laser pulse and an apropriate material to create a large bandwidth spectrum.

I would like to see an While Laser with RBG.