My second homemade CO2 laser
Second scratchbuilt laser started in 2000 and abandoned in 2001, quite a bit more advanced than the first using a 10mm laser cut frame and 10mm perspex mounting blocks with…
Lasers I’m working on
A real CO2 laser
I was called in to repair this laser about 4 years ago. The turbine had been connected with the phases reversed and had sucked oil from the vacuum pump into…
First CO2 laser
My first CO2 laser built back in 1998-9. Using 22mm copper fittings and 22mm borosilicate glass epoxied with JB weld. It ran for about 3 hours of operating time before…
Cheap DPSS laser pointer in bits
Pulled this apart back in 2003 to post on alt.lasers
Linear PSU March 2002
A simple linear ion laser PSU I built in 2002, based on the design at Sam's laer FAQ.