Try Lasertack in Germany. High Quality optics they have.
Their RA prisms are coated with HR dichroic film.
But are they only reflect or both HR/AR i don't know... Ask them.
Try Lasertack in Germany. High Quality optics they have.
Their RA prisms are coated with HR dichroic film.
But are they only reflect or both HR/AR i don't know... Ask them.
Last edited by epyn; 12-28-2016 at 00:07.
What you are seeing is the combined effects of divergence (never negative in air) and a convergent focus by the lens.I just measured the other axis of the laser beam with a vernia and its 5.6mm at aperture and 3.9mm 4.8meters away so thats -0.354mrad
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You are correct, you need to use a telescope. You have a large number of options, but you will usually want the beams to be as similar as possible, especially, most especially, at the distance where you will usually strike the projection surface. Play around with a few lenses and decide how you want to manipulate each beam. A good guide is that you want to fill as much of your scanner mirrors as you can with out spilling off the edges. This will allow you to get the smallest divergence for a given beam. From that point you can decide how you want to modify this best case to match the beams to each other. This will mean you will worsen the divergence of one to match the other.Any suggestions as to what I can do to make the beams roughly the same? or make the beams thinner using a telescope or something?
If your beams are asymmetrical in cross sectional dimensions, then a one axis (cylindrical) telescope can be used to optimize one axis of a given beam without affecting the other.
YOU need to experiment because it is impractical for us to give you an exact list of components and their positions without knowing your entire projection layout.
You might want to check the green first. If it is a DPSS then typically these have better beam specs than the diodes and if you expand this, the far field spot size may end up significantly smaller than the other two. If you still want to expand, then a slight defocus can fix this.
Be careful of a diaphragm (as opposed to the pinhole in a spatial filter). These can trim the near field beams, but they can produce some diffraction noise from where the beams strike the edge of the aperture.
I think you should read "Jors" excellent post...... http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/...limator-lenses apart from learning a lot you will find a link to a decent heat sink for your green.
You will still probably need a fan cos greens get HOT.
You can also get cheap little thermostat cards from Banggood or fleabay so you can pull the plug on the modulation input if the temp goes too high.
Cheers
PS. Find my post and scroll down three!
Last edited by catalanjo; 03-06-2017 at 16:39. Reason: typos etc.
Your welcome.
Cheers
9mm/5,6mm diodes are hard pressed inside those 12mm dia. copper cylinders (12mm copper module)
Z-bolt heatsink is designed to clamp such 12mm dia module. They also provide small fan to place on top (over those 4 holes)
http://shop.z-bolt.com/Heat-Sink-for...ules_p_13.html
https://sites.google.com/site/dtrlpf...s/ndg-1w-520nm
drill press makes short work of self made mounts.