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Schrecken Licht
Wicked Lasers Master
Joined: 05 Jun 2006
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Location: Maryland USA
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 Posted: 5/23/07, 11:03 PM Post subject: DPSS laser |
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Just thought I'd post a link to a recent article about what is considered to be the future of laser weaponry.
http://www.laserfocusworld.com/display_article/292398/12/ARTCL/none/Fe at/Photonic-Frontiers:-laser-weapons---Pumping-up-the-power
Article is long but has an interesting pic of the inside of the LLNL giant YAG laser showing the pump diodes lit up. Funny thing these are close cousins of what many of us carry around in our pockets - but theirs puts out KW and has a duty cycle of only a second or two - not to mention you can't see the beam and you can't use batteries!
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Rasel
Wicked Lasers God
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Joined: 05 Jan 2007
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Location: Oregon, United States
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Rokit
Modified 10mW Greenie
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
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| Posted: 5/24/07, 12:07 AM Post subject: |
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Iv'e seeno one of those bad boyz in person  |
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Schrecken Licht
Wicked Lasers Master
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Location: Maryland USA
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| Posted: 5/24/07, 1:36 PM Post subject: |
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| a major reason the Pentagon chose not to go ahead with a mobile version of THEL, the Tactical High-Energy Laser, which shot down targets successfully but requires deuterium-fluoride fuel |
Too bad... looks like they are using the new ones for RAM (rockets, artillery, morters) too though. We need videos!
Someone help me with this please:
Are the Nd:YAGs synthetic, how do they work, and what about the Nd:YVO4? |
Here's more info than you can ever want (or need, probably) on lasers of all kinds, specifically solid state lasers:
http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/laserssl.htm#ssltoc
Just scroll down and there's lots on YAG and YVO lasers.
P.S. I'd love to see some videos of these things in action too....there's only one I know of that was in an issue of Popular science maybe less than a year ago. I don't have the link handy right now, though.
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Lasers are like potato chips - you can't have just one!
Nexus 95mw, Confirmed 173 mw Pulsar, , 131mw argon-ion laser, Core laser, and Signature Fusion 125mw, 100mw blue - average output 131mw - lab laser, and a 20 WATT (yeah you read that right!) CO2 laser!:
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cybermario
25mW Classic Wicked Laser
Joined: 26 May 2007
Posts: 31
Location: Wrocław
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I want one of those  |
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krutsch16
Modified 10mW Greenie
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Location: Ohio
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| I've heard there are some lasers used to detonate the payload of a missile instead of using an electrical device to trigger a primary charge. |
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