White diffraction

[Cyparagon]

How's this for a nonconstructive activity? I went to the trouble of combining red, green, and blue beams. Then I took them apart again. But it sure is sexy. OH yes.

Start with your typical (or not so typical) white beam:



And add smoke and various diffraction gratings













Total output was around 300mW

 

[jayhawker08]

thats awesome!

 

[MarioMaster]

that is crazy... last pic is really awesome

 

[charleytown55il]

that last one is now on my desktop. just one thing, it looks like the camera moved durning the exposure.

 

[SenKat]

Simply BREATHTAKING ! Great photos, man

 

[Greenie]

Oh man that is very sweet.

 

[Tallaxo]

That is awesome, how long did it take you to set up?

Jase

 

[Cyparagon]

I only spent 20 minutes or so this time around, so you may be able to see misalignments or skewed ratios.

 

[timelord]

Am I missing something here but I'm not seeing any photos in this thread :-/

 

[lamborgini8]

Images wont load...

 

[Cyparagon]

My hosting service has been having a lot of troubles lately. They're still there, but the server goes down fairly often, sometimes for hours at a time.

They load as of this post, anyway.

 

[disma]

thats awesome!

Max

 

[sambo5472]

O my god that's simply stunning man . Those pictures are awesome, what are the powers off the lasers used. Is that bleu one an argon? What kind of dichro did u use, i can't believ u pulled this off in 20 minutes very nice work man.

 

[Cyparagon]

Yes, that's my 50mW single line argon. I didn't measure the outputs this time, but they should still be at a ratio close to 4:1:2 totalling around 300mW.

The rightmost optic in this lot from ebay can be used as either a red/green, green/blue, or red/blue depending on the angle of the incident beam. I used it to combine the green and blue. For the sea-green/red dichro, I used a strange unidentified pane of glass I found in a dead digital camera.