Laserwave Distributor

[steve-o]

The reds in my projector are cooled to sub-zero and so they each put out a little over 1 W. The 3.8 W is post filter but pre-scanner.

Is that 1W per each P73 diode??

[planters]

1 W per G71 diode. The cooling makes this possible and the G 71's have about 2/3 the divergence of the P73's.

[steve-o]

Woah! I seem to remember during the "Grail" thread days experimenting with the G71s and they did have an easier to tame beam iirc. I wonder though what you could get out of a P73 cooled to 0°C? 2W ?

[planters]

No, I would not go there. I got 2W at -75C with the P73 and killed it @ 3W @ -190C. I think of the P73 as a 1.5x G71 both in divergence and power out put. The facet of the P73 is 50% longer so this makes sense. I would use the p73 @ 1.5W @ 0C.

[steve-o]

Well, that's still pretty good; 1-1/2 Watts from a single diode of wonderful 638 (.. or chilled 635nm ?) almost equating with the 9mm 445 blue diode of about 2W at ambient .. now if the DI Greenies could just catch-up ..

--edit-- oops thread derailment detected -- back to OP .. heh ..

[clickamouse]

Hi Mr. Planters, sir;

Looking for a 1W and 2W green; do you have a price yet for Laserwave jobbies?
Dimensions of heads and drivers?
Do you have a price sheet for the rest of the LWs you have available?
Shipped to Michigan.

Do you know yet how noisy these are? Gotta be quieter than those !@#$ Viashos...

Thanks much...Mike

[hitekvoop]

This is great news. I have around 10w of various laserwave products. Have been very happy with them so far. I got to experience the pain of returning product to China when I mistakenly ordered a 1w 637 only to find the beam height way off from the 900mw version. Would've been much easier dealing with a stateside distributor.

Glad to hear you're on board with this. Like many others I would be interested in various optics and mirror/dichro sets. I think I'm set on laser sources for the time being.

Look forward to doing business.

-rick

[planters]

dear click,

I am planning to keep a significant inventory of the 1W, 2W and we are talking about some 4W green DPSS lasers. The optics are easy and I will be receiving a small quantity of each wavelength range of the dichros, cubes and wave plates as well as the HR mirrors. I will test each of these and then with some confidence that they meet expectations, I will provide these stocked in significant quantity. There has been only a little interest in the red and blue modules and to stock these Laserwave will probably have to provide these under a little different arrangement...TBD. However, I will be stocking some spares and will review with their engineers the adjustment and repair procedures for their most popular lasers, whether I stock them or not.

Do you know yet how noisy these are? Gotta be quieter than those !@#$ Viashos...

I know what you mean. I have a Vashio and it is loud,although I'm OK with this because of all the fans I have running in each of my projectors. The Laserwave is absolutely silent. There are no moving parts. The cooling that these need has to come a base-plate. This applies to both the head and to the driver. If you are planning to use these as a bench top laser then you definitely need to order one of their bench style driver/power supplies, but if as most of us you are planning to use this in a projector then consider the 2W driver as a 3" x 5" x 1.50" open board on an Al mounting plate. You bolt the mounting plate to a thermally conductive panel in the projector and then run the 24" cable to the head which is also bolted down. Don't elevate the head above the base plate with 4 small corner spacers-it will overheat.

[kecked]

Make bridge make a single mode all diode module for under 1k that just needs supplies scanners and an ilda connector. 300-400mw is plenty for most hobby work and programming.

[swamidog]

Just use one of those rgb diode bundles from dtr.

Make bridge make a single mode all diode module for under 1k that just needs supplies scanners and an ilda connector. 300-400mw is plenty for most hobby work and programming.