How come very few companies sell "good" red lasers?
The only companies that sell high-powered portable lasers at the moment are Wicked Lasers and Laserglow, and many people would prefer not to buy from Wicked. LaserGlow sells a high-powered red laser, but it only goes up to 200 mW. From what I've hard, some diodes from DVD burners peak at around 400 mW.
Also, most high-powered red lasers have a pretty large beam diameter (like 4 mm), which is undesirable. Yet, Stephanie from LC has made a burner with a beam diameter of 3 mm, and it seems to have good divergence, and I think Pseudonomen137 said that a red laser could go down to 2 mm and still have good specs.
So I'm wondering, why don't other companies like NOVA and Optotronics start producing red lasers?
The only companies that sell high-powered portable lasers at the moment are Wicked Lasers and Laserglow, and many people would prefer not to buy from Wicked. LaserGlow sells a high-powered red laser, but it only goes up to 200 mW. From what I've hard, some diodes from DVD burners peak at around 400 mW.
Also, most high-powered red lasers have a pretty large beam diameter (like 4 mm), which is undesirable. Yet, Stephanie from LC has made a burner with a beam diameter of 3 mm, and it seems to have good divergence, and I think Pseudonomen137 said that a red laser could go down to 2 mm and still have good specs.
So I'm wondering, why don't other companies like NOVA and Optotronics start producing red lasers?