Making a Ti:Saphir laser at home => impossible?

[AnselmoFanZero]

Ahoihoi
This thread is for all the pulsed-laser-pros out there. Its almost as stupid as asking for a homemade chemical laser, but I saw some Ti:Saphir mirrors on ebay which were sold, so I was just wondering if anyone had the same idea?

Ultra-short-pulse laser are so damn cool I cant even find words for it...

Even a superfast UV pulse-laser like Excimer or a Marxlaser would fire a pulse 1000 times longer than a femto-second-laser...amazing dont you think?

 

[Greenmechanic]

Nothing is impossible to build if you want it bad enough. (excluding things that are physically impossible, of course) Very, very difficult maybe, but not impossible.
And no, I am not just being a wise-ass, I'm just saying if you want to build it bad enough, you will find a way.
Start buy reading some here.(if you haven't already)Sam's Laser FAQ - Home-Built Pulsed Solid State (PSS) Laser

 

[AnselmoFanZero]

Thanks for the motivation...

Actually I am aiming for the laser-guided-energy thing. But something is confusing me: All of us know the laser induced plasma channel video on utube...the rate is kinda low...fs-lasers can pulse with 1000hz or so. Thats why I was thinkin its a pulsed UV laser, ionizing the air. But the puls is still a thousand times longer than a fs-laser-pulse.

I would go for a 1-2W Ti:Sa laser...hard enough to play around with 1W CW SS lasers.