Eidetical
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After moving a lot of lasers out of my house to the exhibit in Tempe, I had to rearrange everything else to accommodate the voids and disruption. I finally found a display cabinet to replace one taken away, and have filled it with some cool old plasma tubes and a few heads. The bottom shelf holds Spectra-Physics models 112 (long) and 115 rf-excited He-Ne heads and a TRG model 513 "Biolaser" ruby head (for use on a microscope), all from around 1964. Beatlemania lasers! To the right is a dye laser head made by Chromatix (an early spin-off from Spectra-Physics), and also a Metrologic He-Ne tube from 1969.
The center shelf (l-r) are a Bausch & Lomb He-Ne, an RCA argon ion tube in resonator, an RCA He-Cd tube in handling cradle, an American Optical He-Ne on mounting brackets and with the covers removed, and a He-Ne laser simulator made for a Bell Labs communications demonstration kit. These are all from the late 1960s or very early '70s.
Top shelf in the case is a Britt argon ion tube from the '80s at the rear, and an unused tube from a late-'60s Korad KG-22 flowing gas CO2 laser in front of that. In front on the left is an unused Spectra-Physics model 950 tunable sealed CO2 tube I assembled and filled during my first job with lasers around 1982. To the right is an unused tube for a Spectra-Physics model 164 argon laser.
The old Oriel rail on top of the cabinet holds He-Ne heads from the late-'60s, made (l-r) by Perkin-Elmer, Quantum Physics, Metrologic, and Edmund Scientific (actually made by Metrologic).
The center shelf (l-r) are a Bausch & Lomb He-Ne, an RCA argon ion tube in resonator, an RCA He-Cd tube in handling cradle, an American Optical He-Ne on mounting brackets and with the covers removed, and a He-Ne laser simulator made for a Bell Labs communications demonstration kit. These are all from the late 1960s or very early '70s.
Top shelf in the case is a Britt argon ion tube from the '80s at the rear, and an unused tube from a late-'60s Korad KG-22 flowing gas CO2 laser in front of that. In front on the left is an unused Spectra-Physics model 950 tunable sealed CO2 tube I assembled and filled during my first job with lasers around 1982. To the right is an unused tube for a Spectra-Physics model 164 argon laser.
The old Oriel rail on top of the cabinet holds He-Ne heads from the late-'60s, made (l-r) by Perkin-Elmer, Quantum Physics, Metrologic, and Edmund Scientific (actually made by Metrologic).
