Haven't been active in lasers or on this list really, since I pinholed my retina with the N2 pumped dye setup I built in high school.
But, I picked up a 6 inch long Nd:YAG rod, pump chamber, and mounting block with flow tubes and water cooling channels for almost nothing the other day, with two mirror mounts that appear to have mirrors in them for 1064nm operation.
I thought I had a usable flashlamp for this but I do not. The lamp I have is slightly too big to fit into the holes it goes in.
The flashlamp needs to be approximately 0.250" outside diameter, and just over 7.5" long from O-ring seal to O-ring seal. Arc length appears to be 5 to 5.25 inches?
It's definitely a flashlamp pumped setup, the rod is very nicely purple in transmission and has a 4mm aperture.
Anyone know an appropriate flashlamp model to hunt down on Ebay?
Thanks, Jacob Thomas