Re: New HeNe lasers

From: Howard Shapiro (hms@shapirolab.com)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 18:01:16 EST


Ray Lannigan wrote-

>     I just bought a 17mW 635nM HeNe from Coherent that went into a Facscan.
>The tube and power supply were  reasonably priced and performed well. Higher
>power tubes are also available. You also may want to check out Power
>Technology's line of laser diode modules. The link to the table of available
>modules is http://www.powertechnology.com/LDINFO/DIOLIST.ASP . The ones
>listed on this page have elliptical beams, so you may want to talk to them
>about getting a circular beam output.

And I just got a 25 mW 635 nm diode system with a circular beam from Power
Technology; I haven't had a chance to test it extensively but I've had
pretty good luck with their lower power circular beam systems, and the 25
mW has a thermoelectric cooler (same package they use for the violet
diodes), which should minimize mode hop noise.  The system was under $2,000.

-Howard



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