Re: Inexpensive UV laser?

From: Howard Shapiro (hms@shapirolab.com)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 05:00:56 EST


Ray Hester wrote-

>Is there an inexpensive ($10,000 to $15,000) laser capable of UV output?
>This would be used with a confocal laser scanning microscope so the power
>output requirement might not be as great as with a flow cytometer - perhaps
>25 to 50 mW (?).

Contact Melles Griot (Carlsbad, CA); they acquired Liconix, which made a
355 nm He-Cd laser - probably lower power than you'd like, but in the price
range.  The usual 325 nm He-Cd UV line won't work because it doesn't get
through glass lenses.

-Howard



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