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
I have to wonder, and haven't researched it at all, but with how LEDs have evolved, could those serve for flash pumping by now? As in, "DPSS"... COB phosphor LED types have underlying UV emitters, right?
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Howdy,
A few years ago, when I was contemplating building a solid state laser, I did a bit of reading on LED stuff. The literature I could find mostly had piss-poor efficiencies, even when pumping with 810nm LEDs. (Piss-poor being something like 0.2-0.5%). One intriguing thing I noticed was that Nd:YAG has a pretty decent absorption peak in the visible at around 580-590nm, which is slap-bang in the middle of where yellow LEDs emit. However I couldn't determine if it was possible to pump it there or not.
You can get very high power, compact LED sources using flip-chip emitters such as this:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005926583554.html
And you can get the individual chips like this:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32921772540.html
However whether it's worth the trouble of assembling a couple hundred of them, is debatable!
I eventually was going to try a TIG torch arc in argon, but totally went off the whole project after I bought a 30W fiber laser engraver (and now have a 60W) ;-)
Lindsay
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Lindsay Robert Wilson, B.Sc. Ph.D. Web: http://imajeenyus.com Email: lindsay@imajeenyus.com On 30/08/2023 13:18, *Hobbit* wrote:
I have to wonder, and haven't researched it at all, but with how LEDs have evolved, could those serve for flash pumping by now? As in, "DPSS"... COB phosphor LED types have underlying UV emitters, right?
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