LaserGlow blue laser pointer price drops

[c0ldshadow]

laserglow has made some big pricedrops for its blue laser pointers

http://laserglow.com/bluepointer.html

from what i have heard from pseudonomen137 these CNI lasers are not very good, however.

 

[pseudonomen137]

Yep, those are some pretty nice price drops. I haven't tried one out for a few months, so they may have improved them a little, but the overall construction just seemed far too poor for the price. Only up to 10mW models were being made at the time though, so it would be interesting to see how a 20mW handles. I still would highly recommend the RPL Blue over any of these CNI blues, but at $500 for the weakest one, that is the cheapest way I know of to get a portable 473nm DPSS.

 

[c0ldshadow]

yeah the RPL blue at optotronics looks much better overall and for a better price too:

http://www.optotronics.com/b-lithium-ion.php

 

[timelord]

$1089 for 20mw's of blue That is cheap

 

[neocacher]

Hope it is 1/3 that in a year, if I still love lasers!

Neo

 

[laser]

just look what happened to green lasers! you can buy them for 20 bucks. not high powered ones though.

http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/7...5mw-Black_W0QQitemZ260058504180QQcmdZViewItem

its on ebay though.

 

[pseudonomen137]

Sure, blue prices will go down... Don't expect it to be soon though, probably at least a good few years. For some reason I keep hearing that the new "blu-ray" technology will bring blue laser prices down... not true at all as they are very different lasers and technologies. What interests me is that if laser projection and display catches on as ome companies are claiming it will, maybe direct-injected blue diodes are what we should be looking forward to instead of blue DPSS. Right now DPSS can be in demand for RGB purposes, but the more and more attention is paid to researching 440nm and other blue diodes for displays, probably the less demand for blue DPSS and we may never see the price on those drop like the greenies.