Arctos are just plain nuts

[QUAZAR]

I think that is the most amazing blue I have ever seen.

[buffo]

Sounds like near-field alignment is out.<SNIP>Adam- you beat me to it! Oh well I'll leave my post anyway

Actually Steve-o, I'm glad you posted... Your post has the picture that shows the problem quite nicely. Good job. (I didn't feel like loading up Paint Shop Pro to draw a diagram. Good thing you did though!)

And Werner, yes, it is easier to talk about it than to do it. Aligning the lasers in your projector is a real pain in the ass. But if you do it right, you only have to do it once.

VJ AIWAZ: Welcome to PhotonLexicon! Just noticed you there. Thanks for the legwork finding the info on the Arctos units. Man, I can't imagine trying to align one of those beasts. But the output is pretty fine, I've got to admit!

Adam

[steve-o]

How do they get all those reds into one beam? Or is it a bunch of beams?
I don't see much red in the output
'Tis awesome machine tho Probly about the cost of a new car.. Reckon?

[Starburst]

A new car??? Cost of this monster > 130.000 USD!!!

[steve-o]

WHOA! .. An expensive car!

[p1t8ull]

130.000 USD!!!

I'm actually surprised it's only $130.000..!

It's an absolutely beautiful piece of engineering, and I really want to get my little pinkies on some of those luvverly deep blue diodes

[steve-o]

How do they align all those reds???
I tried reading some of that but it didn't make much sense to me..
and I really dont know if it translated all that well..
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To a fried eggness will unite used, whereby a special gunsight unit provides one above the other for a parallelism of the laser beams put with a mirror. The first laser beam mechanism and the second laser beam mechanism exhibit thereby a horizontal and a vertical laser mechanism with two laser diodes arranged next to each other. The designations ?horizontal? and ?vertically? refer here and in the following in each case to the polarization of a laser beam produced thereby. The horizontal laser diodes produce a horizontal square laser beam and the vertical laser diodes produce a vertical square laser beam.

[mliptack]

Steve-o I am wondering the same thing... I would love to figure out how to do something like that... does anyone have any insight?

[allthatwhichis]

Do we really need to bring this thread back up? That picture is harder to look away from than a good porn shot... Probably because I can forseen myself with most any porn chick... however imporbable, I can easily imagine winning one of the, say spandex thread chicks, with a little charm, money, and or booze, but that "array" of purdy diodes is WAY out of my league. Can't we just delete this thread as opposed to this reoccuring touture...

[steve-o]

Aww.. come on man , just one more look..