Lasers

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This isn't necessarily totally related (Though I am planning on doing some
laser stuff with the stamp), but does anyone have a good laser resource?
I'd like to get something in the 3-5 mw range, and I'm not really sure
what all the 'pieces' are to a working laser system - diodes, tubes, power
supplies, etc.

Thanks.

Sean T. Lamont, CTO / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet)
Seattle - Bellingham - Vancouver - Portland - Everett - Tacoma - Bremerton
email: lamont@a... WWW: http://www.serv.net
"...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson

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An easy way to get a working laser diode is to purchase a laser pointer at
an office supply store. I recently bought an Apollo Mini Laser Pointer
#MP600, 3mW @ 650nm. It was quite easy to disassemble. You end up with a
small metal enclosed laser diode soldered to a tiny PC board. Solder a
couple of wires to it and connect it to a 3 volt supply and you're all set
to experiment.

Bob

At 06:22 PM 10/9/00 -0700, you wrote:
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>This isn't necessarily totally related (Though I am planning on doing some
>laser stuff with the stamp), but does anyone have a good laser resource?
>I'd like to get something in the 3-5 mw range, and I'm not really sure
>what all the 'pieces' are to a working laser system - diodes, tubes, power
>supplies, etc.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Sean T. Lamont, CTO / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet)
>Seattle - Bellingham - Vancouver - Portland - Everett - Tacoma - Bremerton
>email: lamont@a... WWW: http://www.serv.net
>"...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson
>
>
>
>
>

Archiver

check out the alt.lasers newsgroup.. there are many helpful people there..

Jason Lavoie

"Sean T. Lamont .lost." wrote:

> This isn't necessarily totally related (Though I am planning on doing some
> laser stuff with the stamp), but does anyone have a good laser resource?
> I'd like to get something in the 3-5 mw range, and I'm not really sure
> what all the 'pieces' are to a working laser system - diodes, tubes, power
> supplies, etc.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sean T. Lamont, CTO / Chief NetNerd, Abstract Software, Inc. (ServNet)
> Seattle - Bellingham - Vancouver - Portland - Everett - Tacoma - Bremerton
> email: lamont@a... WWW: http://www.serv.net
> "...There's no moral, it's just a lot of stuff that happens". - H. Simpson