Yes awesome works! Especially the red module, sad that its designer doesn't build some more and sell us the mecanical parts, so we can put in our own red modules and driver and mount all that
I cant tell you that the work involved is quite huge, and the design is unique
this would certainly not be worth the pain to make such a design in series
as soon as you have more thant 4 diodes, size begins to matter more and more, and anyone would keep his tricks for him... but possibilities are endless
why not 4 groups of 2 diodes with PBS, all on an axicon? XD
Sure I'm aware that a lot of work was done, I followed the story on the Laserfreak forum (my mothertongue is french, it helps lol).
The best trick in my opinion is the one-piece inline mirror's mounts (instead of one mount per mirror). That's this parts which saves the most place.
And yes there's a lot of possibilities. Some times ago I designed a less powerful but small red module, with 4 diodes and only 2 mirrors and one cube... Still on the paper... But I hope one time I'll find time to build it, and verify it that works as in the theory.
If only I could pervert a mate at work to build all that on its great 5-axis CNC
Can you take a shot of the beam path in the red module? I looked at the pictures on laserfreak but since I only speak english ( ) I couldn't really read what was going on.
I'm just trying to see how the beams combine, I see the four mirrors on each side but it looks like the beam would just bounce off and hit the mirror in front of it.
I know most people offset the mirrors just a tiny bit so you end up with almost a 'line' of dots on the output end of the diode array (like Phil's red project), but yours doesn't appear to have that issue.
The picture is first plan of the red.
My friend (Alex) take the plan for the idea and removed and change a lot of element and the design of it for arrived at 92/100mm.
He change the output's place...
The point is a squarre 6/6mm with 4 points with 0,6mrad diverg.
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) I couldn't really read what was going on.
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