My ideal laser would a 473 blue, in the CNI case, it would have adjustable focus, no duty cycle, and its power would be 1W. I think I will be waiting a LONG time before this laser ever exist though.. :'( :-/
Do we really know why this laser is not possible, is it becasue the diode would overheat in a pen-sized 1 watt laser? I guess the blue is even less efficient than the green, so who knows what power pump diode you would need to produce 1W of blue light, anyone know what the ratio is? Maybe you could have a small liquid nitogen cooling pack in the laser? Like a small flexible pack of coolant around the diode, it wouldn't need to much bigger....just dreaming.