I want to see the 690 nm red conversion that Anderson lasers (DNA Equipment's parent, litterally) has done to ktps.
18 watts of even 690 has to scatter off smoke pretty well.
I want one in the basement to pump a 630 red dye, heck split off 10% and drive a dye, and tune through red to yellow.You now have Fakafloyd(tm) simulated copper and gold vapor. Fakafloyd is now a trademark of mixedgas and must be used with permission. I figgure about 1-2 hour of dye use if the focus mirror in the dye can take it. Since a 580 dye goes for 100$ or less on the bay........ and I have two dye heads in my basement.
If you want to try to scan graphics, Pat Murphy, the cofounder of pangolin, suggested having every other frame at a slightly different scan rate, to "fill in the dashes" we tried it with LMR's copper vapor, in 1996, works nicely.
When I was a spotter on a show with a 50 watt Lee with much worse D/D then a laserscope, we managed to put a LM style test pattern on a building 1 mile away, that was about it graphics wise. Text was limited to say 4-5 letters of the right stick font. Words like "DUH" came through nicely. We did much better using the smaller cvl beam in tests, some graphics shows looked pretty good in a 1" beam
Steve