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Recently I have stated a new project to try a different technical solution for the Pack of beams divergence problem.
Here I have tried to find the best use of cylindricals received some months ago from last GB organised by CDBeam.
I have that device made of 2xNUBM08 blocks from techhood which are very well focused (this was just a luck), so only 3-4 of the 16 beams were focused badly by G-ball lenses here. Once focused at 20cm this thing burned through stainless steel almost as good as NUBM31T.
So I supposed that due to big size of these lenses each pair can be used to correct 2 beams, so 16 beams could be expanded by using only 8 of such pairs where 16 pairs of cylindricals from LSP would be needed. From other side, the wideness of these lenses does not allow to install all the group on one holding plate, so I had to machine 2 holders for each of PCV and PCX groups.
Here it is assembled, the beams from these blocks are quite parallel, so the idea works and now you see at last 12 (fairly) sharp points on the wall 5m away. Later I plan to add a refocuser for the 4 beams which are not focused well here followed by a kind of "macro-DMD" chip with 16 adjustable mirrors I am making now to get all of these beams parallel...
Here I have tried to find the best use of cylindricals received some months ago from last GB organised by CDBeam.
I have that device made of 2xNUBM08 blocks from techhood which are very well focused (this was just a luck), so only 3-4 of the 16 beams were focused badly by G-ball lenses here. Once focused at 20cm this thing burned through stainless steel almost as good as NUBM31T.
So I supposed that due to big size of these lenses each pair can be used to correct 2 beams, so 16 beams could be expanded by using only 8 of such pairs where 16 pairs of cylindricals from LSP would be needed. From other side, the wideness of these lenses does not allow to install all the group on one holding plate, so I had to machine 2 holders for each of PCV and PCX groups.
Here it is assembled, the beams from these blocks are quite parallel, so the idea works and now you see at last 12 (fairly) sharp points on the wall 5m away. Later I plan to add a refocuser for the 4 beams which are not focused well here followed by a kind of "macro-DMD" chip with 16 adjustable mirrors I am making now to get all of these beams parallel...