What are these?

[Xytrell]

I'll take a guess at 30V 10A. I think a starting pulse is also required.

[mixedgas]

Enjoy:

http://www.optoelectronics.perkinelm...t/manuals/gde_cermax.pdf


Also cloned recently , after patent(s) timed out, by hammatsu and GE.

Steve

[GooeyGus]

wow thats pretty low... I was thinking like arc lamp current/voltage levels.

Could one of these be used to pump a YAG or similar rod? Seems a bit more efficient than an arc lamp... but then again it could be a lot weaker. I'm not really sure of the wattage rating of arc lamps. To be honest, I really dont know a whole lot about lamp pumping in general....

[shrad]

the schematic given in this document is quite interesting

thanks for these informations

[mixedgas]

Could one of these be used to pump a YAG or similar rod? Seems a bit more efficient than an arc lamp... but then again it could be a lot weaker. I'm not really sure of the wattage rating of arc lamps. To be honest, I really dont know a whole lot about lamp pumping in general.... [/QUOTE]

yags are usually pumped with a krypton CW arc, which puts out huge amounts of IR at the right wavelengths, and very little visible light,
would need to be filled with krypton, to get the 810 nm band , to really pump yag well. I'm sure it could be done, with a yag slab, but never seen it done.

Steve

[heroic]

Could one of these be used to pump a YAG or similar rod? Seems a bit more efficient than an arc lamp...

Weeell.... it *is* an arc lamp, just a really really short arc lamp made out of some kind of ceramic unobtainium.

[mixedgas]

Weeell.... it *is* an arc lamp, just a really really short arc lamp made out of some kind of ceramic unobtainium.

AL2O3 is not generally thought of as unobtainium. Some of the materials used to braze the lamp together are not cheap however.

Steve

[heroic]

AL2O3 is not generally thought of as unobtainium. Some of the materials used to braze the lamp together are not cheap however.

Steve

It's not the material itself that makes it unobtainium; it's the fabrication technology you have to use to put it together...

[colouredmirrorball]

wow frightening suntan-tatoo jackhammer here!

why is not Belgium a place where you can find unique items too? I wish I lived in california or any other technological place in US

A bit of a late reply but there are surely some very cool things in Belgium too. Look good, I discovered there lived somebody only 10 km away from me with an Argon, one or two gas RGB's and a few more "little" stuff, only one or two watts of green and RGY. And he is not even professional!

[shrad]

Hehe yes, but it seems laserists are quite difficult to find in Belgium

I still wish there were some nice surplus places in our little country