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Nothing special - my first laser video






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Wow, that's a lot of mirrors! Nice!
So this is a 5mW green laser? Good visibility!
Lasers are so awesome, all the things you can do with them. Just wait till you'll have more powerful lasers and different colors, just beautiful.
 
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Yeah its 5mW. Me and my brother had gotten 4 or 5 similar ones but this one definetly stands out in terms of visibility. Just for the heck of it I tried using it to light a match with it through an external lense, no go on lighting, however I was suprised to see the match start to smoke :)
 
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Yeah its 5mW. Me and my brother had gotten 4 or 5 similar ones but this one definetly stands out in terms of visibility. Just for the heck of it I tried using it to light a match with it through an external lense, no go on lighting, however I was suprised to see the match start to smoke :)

Really!? It started to smoke? Than that's definitely more than 5mW. That must be above 30mW. As for the lighting the match, you'd probably need somewhere above 60mW with an external lens.
 
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Yeah, I sat there and kept trying to get it to light, but no go. I was shocked when I saw some smoke rise when I put the focal point of the light on the match head.
 
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here is a picture of the mirrors I used in the video

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Well the round mirrors happened to fit nicely in a 4 by 4 open section of lego blocks, to keep them secure i just used a little piece of rubberized padding. As for the larger mirrors I just built around them.
 
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the second large mirror from the right is actually a 50/50 beam splitter I came across.
 




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