I just built my first laser. It's just a blue laser in an aixiz lens. It's driven by an adjustible powers source, so I can adjust the power output to as high as I want. I typically run it around the 1W mark. The laser is powerful, beam is visible and it burns through cd jewel case as expected, however the default axiz optics bleed a lot of the light away. When the laser is shown on a wall, there is a very strong center dot, with a large halo. A fair amount of light is being bled into this halo. I did buy a glass collimating lens from stontek, but that module doesn't focus the beam as well as the default aixiz lens. Can anybody recommend a store and some optics for a blue laser in an aixiz module?
Feel free to post pictures of your results. If anybody is interested, I can post a picture.
Feel free to post pictures of your results. If anybody is interested, I can post a picture.