My Rainbow -- Post Pic's of Yours

[Crazlaser]

Feeling good about this one! What should I add next?

 

[trencheel303]

Pretty proud!

-Alex

hell yes.

 

[NightExplorer96]

Thank you guys

-Alex

 

[vuonmatong]

Feeling good about this one! What should I add next?

Waoo, i love it:drool:

 

[farbe2]

Hey guys! what's going on? We currently have many more wavelengths available than ever before, however nobody is posting pics of there rainbows anymore.
SO i will start:






These are
665nm 638nm 532nm 514nm 502nm 491nm 485nm 478nm 453nm 407nm
I modified standart 405nm laser with different diodes.

I have planed to build 613, 571, 565, 550, 545, 520, 472, 468, 445. I already have the diodes / modules nessasary to do so, however i am still missing hosts and time to build these. 589 and 594 are to expensive for me

 

[Commander J. Bloodmaker]

not in the right order, and I have 488nm blue now, just no updated pics.

 

[ZRaffleticket]

Wall plug lasers I own, minus 532 and 355.

405/450/473/488/505/561/575/589/607/635/650


I want to get a pic of my entire sig, but I have to get a camera that can handle the green-yellow range, and a few more odd diodes to fill in the remaining gaps.

 

[RA_pierce]

@farbe2 Very nice! Like you, I need to get a few of my lasers up and running and post an updated rainbow. I have a 475 and 570 that need hosts. I just haven't had time to do much work on the mill lately.

@ZRaffleticket I've been thinking that it might be worth trying my old film camera for the yellow-green and green-cyan lasers. I wonder if film has a better ability to record the full spectrum of light than digital formats. The simple RGB design of CMOS sensors just can't resolve the fine color differences we see with our eye. I've tried 4 different cameras and all of them fail to accurately record 510-485 nm and 570-560 nm. I've resorted to color correction in photoshop. I'll try film and report on the results...

 

[A30N]

How did you get your 405 and 650 to be as visibly bright as the greens? They must be lower output comparatively.

 

[farbe2]

I did build my pointers to have the same apparent brightness. So 515nm is only 10mW or so, 660nm is 180mW or so. 406nm is around 250mW.
I did that to have all colors at the same brightness. I am aware that this will cause some colors to be more dangerous than others.
However i intended to use only single mode diodes/dpss to get the best beam, so this limits my power to some extend.
If somebody wants, i still have some of these nice 473nm 25mW diodes left.

 

[ZRaffleticket]

I only really added fog to make the beams more visible. However, it is also true that the 505nm is maybe 30mW and the 405 and 650 are closer to 300mW. I excluded my 1.5W 532nm to avoid washing out the picture, and avoided 355nm because that is totally invisible to my camera