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Yesterday, 21:45

VDX replied to a thread Source for Lenticular and "Fuzz" scan through materials? in Lumia

... a hint for transparent glue - here in Germany I'm using "Acrifix 192" for glueing/fusing Plexiglas ... it's curing to pure PMMA, so too usable for "optical chaos" sheets :cool: Viktor

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Yesterday, 14:53

Slide replied to a thread Source for Lenticular and "Fuzz" scan through materials? in Lumia

Great tips. Thanks. For the lenticular FX we've ordered a couple of different small sheets from these folks we discovered on line to try out. www.vicgi.com They sell small quantities at reasonable prices. Time will tell it it works or not. Cheers, Craig

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Yesterday, 14:05

Slide replied to a thread Source for Lenticular and "Fuzz" scan through materials? in Lumia

Thanks, yes, sounds like fun. We've played around a bit with that. It's cool, also the old airplane glue etc for lumia FX. Craig

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Yesterday, 14:01

Slide replied to a thread Source for Lenticular and "Fuzz" scan through materials? in Lumia

Yes, I've talked to John on the phone and his module looks great, it's very sophisticated, and we may go that route down the line. We got a couple of the basic OPT versions before we knew about John's stuff and we'd like to customize those first probably. Thanks, Craig

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Yesterday, 12:12

VDX replied to a thread Source for Lenticular and "Fuzz" scan through materials? in Lumia

... you'll get all sort of weird and funny "optical" stuff, when placing pieces of PMMA or other transparent thermoplastic materials ontop of elcetronic coolers, wire-meshes or other regular (or irregular too) structured metal surfaces into an oven and heating them at 120 to 140 centigrades (PMMA...

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Yesterday, 11:30

mixedgas replied to a thread Source for Lenticular and "Fuzz" scan through materials? in Lumia

You could just buy the whole thing from Technological Artisans, John has a module with two steppers and a DMX controller that fits in front of a scanhead. Steve

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06-16-2025, 06:53

KANG started a thread Introducing Pretty Knobs! in Buy/Sell/Trade

Pretty Knobs Laser Projector Hardware, Reimagined. Still using the stock locking handles? You know the ones that snap shut like a bear trap, never sit right in your case, and make your laser projector look like it's begging for retirement? Cool. We took the unhinged colors of SpongeBob's...

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06-16-2025, 00:10

ablelaser01 started a thread Recommend ABLELASER hot sales lasers in Buy/Sell/Trade

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06-16-2025, 00:03

ablelaser01 replied to a thread BUYING : 2 Laser Units (3W–10W) + FB3 in Buy/Sell/Trade

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06-15-2025, 15:46

Laser57 replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

I have a lot of 35W 975 nm fiber modules which were sold as tested and good, the ones I powered up were, but I don't use lasers for anything practical, just for fun and still have two eyes too. I live out in a very rural area and have room to play, no airports anywhere near me but also not pointing...

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06-15-2025, 15:40

VDX replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

... when powerfull enough, then it's pretty good suited for metal: - welding, melting, cutting ... and "3D-printing" >:) The 40W@975nm-diodes with attached 0,1mm-fibers were already enough, to melt lowtemp melting metal powder or many (dark) powders of other materials like plastic, lignin, glass...

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06-15-2025, 15:27

Laser57 replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

What else to do with 1064 nm :p It's a long term project, but I have a few of them...... I made a SHG once before using 1064 nm out of a 15 KW peak power pulsed YAG, average power was only a few watts at 1064.

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06-15-2025, 15:01

VDX replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

... ah, so meant for frequency doubling -- then good luck!

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06-15-2025, 14:08

Laser57 replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

I have a lot of laser junk, mostly good parts, but no lasers which produce more than 10W at 532 nm. Would like to use these heads, have three of them, to build a high power 532 nm laser using one or two if OSC and PA arrangement.

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06-15-2025, 13:20

VDX replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

... interesting design -- round 20 years ago I've helped to assemble the "ringfocus-laser", where 80(!) 20W-Diodes were collimated and the beams combined into 1.6kW on a "spot" roughly 6mm wide for metal welding. Actually I have many IR-Laserdiodes with up to 40W fed through 0,1mm-fibers or...

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06-15-2025, 11:38

Laser57 replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

Each ring has five diode assemblies, each producing 20 watts IR.

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06-15-2025, 10:44

VDX replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

... so in optimal setup around 100Watts averaged. If I think about te actual DPSS IR-Laserdiode modules wit 2Watts "output power" (read "averaged") -- they're pumping with a 25W-IR-Laserdiode and AFAIK 808nm wavelength ...

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06-15-2025, 08:11

Laser57 replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

There are three 100W ring diode pumps in one ND:YAG head for this one, so that's 300 watts of IR pump into one YAG.

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06-15-2025, 07:45

VDX replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

... with 100Watts pump power in a DPSS setup with AOM modulation the estimated pulse-peak-power should be something like some 10 to 100 Kilowatts and the averaged "CW" power is highly depending on the cooling methodes :cool:

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06-15-2025, 06:49

Laser57 replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

Pulsed high current DC to the diodes, I don't have a power supply capable of doing so but for now, want to use them at a constant current with a AOM or something to produce short bursts, high peak power out of the ND:YAG to produce more efficient SHG conversion to green. I was wrong about the IR...

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06-14-2025, 15:42

VDX replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

... sounds reasonable :cool: On the other side - when only shortly activated (and with massive cooling), diodes can be "overpowered" with up to 50% for some millisconds and up to several 100% for microseconds ... then they'll need some seconds for cooling down. So for "pulsing" applications...

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06-14-2025, 14:43

Laser57 replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

The donut diode rings are each 100 watts, I believe this is likely DC watts into the diodes, three 100 watt rings producing 300 watts at 50% efficiency would be 150 watts of IR pump power, so it stands to reason the output of the ND:YAG is 1/3, or 50 watts, perhaps 60. Is my reasoning valid?

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06-14-2025, 10:34

VDX replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

... for typical power-efficiency with diode pumped lasers, here some numbers: Sometimes around 2005 I had a "disk"-laser with 20Watts averaged, which was pumped with a 60Watt IR-laserdiode-module. Modern fiberlasers too needs around 3x the later "averaged" output power as combined...

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06-14-2025, 07:34

Laser57 replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

Ah, 120+ with flash lamp. Best I've come to find for the ND:YAG output of the diode pump driven 300W Avia Thor head is about 40 watts for a single head, but when searching online for typical output percentage of the pumped power for 1064 nm output, estimates are much higher. Appears I have a bad...

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06-14-2025, 06:03

VDX replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

... the two old ones (120W/150W) were not DPSS, but flas-lamp pumped ... much lower efficiency, as with diodes -- I'll estimate something like 3-5%, instead of around 35% with DPSS. I've stored one of the resonator chambers and got some water-cooled 405nm-LED's with 9W and 100W output, to pump...

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06-14-2025, 04:56

Laser57 replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

You could get 120+ watts out of one single ND:YAG from the Avia Thor when pumped at 300 watts? Impressive, especially 150W. Just wanted to confirm this is possible from a three diode ring Avia Thor ND:YAG, thanks.

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06-14-2025, 00:28

VDX replied to a thread Dpss yag laser in Advanced Technical Discussion

... my two old ones had 120W and 150W (salvaged and sold) ... actually have a "medical" with 60W ... but not "CW" but "averaged" :cool:

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06-13-2025, 19:21

laserist replied to a thread Source for Lenticular and "Fuzz" scan through materials? in Lumia

https://www.edmundoptics.com/f/cylindrical-microlens-arrays/14569/?srsltid=AfmBOoqPRaoY7kBmJmyCHjFir-v_CxZpJByadnBU-rudHpw1XRtIzl0Q https://www.meetoptics.com/lenses/array?srsltid=AfmBOoqMqVH3CC5DUhaw5Jke-lrZ1QqBiEbkKoqc4V0YG5gD9z16nPBQ I know, a bit pricey. You could try cutting a bunch of...

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06-13-2025, 15:37

Slide started a thread Source for Lenticular and "Fuzz" scan through materials? in Lumia

Not exactly Lumia, but we are attempting to modify a commercially available motorized DMX controlled D/G disk. The Lumia port is pretty good but we would like to swap out a couple of the other effects for a lenticular grating that gives a sort of "3D" effect, and also looking for a Fuzz effect....

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06-13-2025, 14:49

Slide replied to a thread OPT 40, DT40, DT50 Scanners? in Laser Displays, Shows, and Scanning

Thanks Gang 2025, Looks like some interesting components. We are actually pretty low volume guys, but will keep you in mind and pass along the info to our friends. Craig

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