Ruby Rod Laser Kit

The ruby rod is the lasing medium and the flash tube pumps it.

Ruby rod laser kit.

Ruby rods with dielectric mirrored ends sizes from 1 4 diameter to 5 8 diameter lengths from 3 long to 6 with parallel ends to 8 arc seconds or better. The flash tube fires and injects light into the ruby rod. Ruby laser rod re polishing and recoating is available with 2 3 week lead time. Ruby lasers produce powerful pulses of visible red laser light.

I made some significant improvements to my ruby laser. Ruby laser is one of the few solid state lasers that produce visible light. The laser in its non lasing state 2. Ruby laser pulse lengths are generally a millisecond in length.

These rods have the latest best most resilient coatings in the industry. The fluorescence life of ruby is in the millisecond range which permits easy storage of large quantanties of energy. It emits deep red light of wavelength 694 3 nm. Please review our material quality info below and inquire with our sales team if you would like more information.

The most expensive components is the ruby yag rod and the mirrors. A ruby laser most often consists of a ruby rod that must be pumped with very high energy usually from a flashtube to achieve a population inversion. The parts are pretty easy to buy online. So power bank must be that big if you want high pulse energies.

Laser medium the pump source and the optical resonator. Ruby laser rods are best suited for the lab or in medical applications. All you need is a xenon flashtube ruby yag rod capacitors charging and pulse transformer power source and trigger. The power setup it is simpliest by.

The light excites atoms in the ruby. Ruby laser click on any picture for a larger view homebuilt ruby laser the ruby laser was the very first laser device in history. Ruby laser is not very efficient thus very big energies needed to excite ruby laser rod. Now it burns holes through steel razor blades and makes a plume of fire when striking targets containi.

This laser generates pulses of visible light in a deep red color at a wavelength of 694 3 nm. The first working laser was a ruby laser developed in may 1960. A ruby laser consists of a flash tube like you would have on a camera a ruby rod and two mirrors one half silvered. Construction of ruby laser.

Even though making a handheld pulsed laser weapon is nearly impossible it s still fun to build a ruby yag laser.