Any use for a 20mW White Laser?

[Laser Ben]

Welp, just traded weak station for a 20mW white light system that runs on 120V. Is there ANY use for this? if not, I'm totally fine with just having it lying around.

[allthatwhichis]

Have you fired it up yet? It'd be cool to play with. You could take it and make something like I am running right now with a laser FX and put it in your living room as a conversation piece. It is not too powerful so it is not too dangerous to show off.

[drlava]

What's the spectral output of a white light laser?

[Laser Ben]

No, It'll be here Thursday. Here's the original pictures he took.

[allthatwhichis]

Damn, I was watching this one. It looks like a nice beam. Nice score.

[Laser Ben]

Great thing is. I didn't spend a penny besides shipping the traded item to him!

[Laser Ben]

Great thing is. I didn't spend a penny besides shipping the traded item to him!

[cruch]

and the price is ?
Thanks!

[Frank]

yes,what's the price.

It's so nice!!

I want to know how to make this type of white laser.

[buffo]

It's a Krypton/Argon mixed gas Ion laser madeby ILT. Basically a 60X head with a larger bore and multi-line whitelight optics installed.

You'd find it rather difficult to make, however. If you have the correct tube, you're all set. But if you *don't* have the tube, you're stuck.

You can't just take any old 60X tube and re-fill it with a Kr/Ar mix and hope it will lase. You need the larger bore to get any usable power out of it.

Plus you need the multiline RGB (or RYB, or even RYGB) optics; those are sort of rare considering the short tube length, and will be difficult to find.

Bottom line: if you don't have the tube and optics already, it's not worth pursuing. You'd be better off building a DPSS whitelight.

Adam