JKaras
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Hello Everybody,
We would like to use lasers to illuminate 3mm side-emitting fiber for a
large scale light installation.
Our experiments with cheap laser pointers were unfortunately unsatisfactory
due to low quality lasers used in those devices.
It would be great to get help from this list on how to get started without
spending thousands of dollars.
Here are a couple of questions:
Can we go brighter than 5mW without melting the fiber?
Any sources for diode-fiber coupling ready made parts that would allow us to
go brighter?
Should we source laser diodes from an electronics supplier like DigiKey with
or without driver circuits and tweak the voltage to test different
brightness levels?
Has anybody on this list ever done this and what was your experience?
How long can light emitting lasers stay on before they exceed there usage
and burn out?
Can we run them 24 hours a day?
We have a decade of experience with LEDs, driver circuits, DMX control, etc
but are new to lasers (see Paramedia).
Any advice would be highly appreciated.
Thank you for your help in advance!
We would like to use lasers to illuminate 3mm side-emitting fiber for a
large scale light installation.
Our experiments with cheap laser pointers were unfortunately unsatisfactory
due to low quality lasers used in those devices.
It would be great to get help from this list on how to get started without
spending thousands of dollars.
Here are a couple of questions:
Can we go brighter than 5mW without melting the fiber?
Any sources for diode-fiber coupling ready made parts that would allow us to
go brighter?
Should we source laser diodes from an electronics supplier like DigiKey with
or without driver circuits and tweak the voltage to test different
brightness levels?
Has anybody on this list ever done this and what was your experience?
How long can light emitting lasers stay on before they exceed there usage
and burn out?
Can we run them 24 hours a day?
We have a decade of experience with LEDs, driver circuits, DMX control, etc
but are new to lasers (see Paramedia).
Any advice would be highly appreciated.
Thank you for your help in advance!