Please, could you tell me what manufactures supply DPSS lasers ( 20-1000mW, visible spector) and what prices are asked. Most sites of companies manufacturing laser equipment supply only technical details of their products, not the prices asked. \nI hope, you can help me with this. Thanks.
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20-1000mW is a huge range for power and cost will vary considerably.  You should also consider your other specifications (cw/pulsed, wavelength, beam stability, beam divergence) as these will vary from laser to laser.\n\nEdmund Optics (http://www.edmundoptics.com/onlinecatalog/displayproduct.cfm?productID=1341)\n20 mW green for $3.2k\n50 mW green for $5.0k\n\nThinkLasers (http://www.thinklasers.com/)\n30mw-300mW green for $595-$2250\n150mW-250mW blue for $3470-$7650
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Manufacturing companies build a lot of specialized equipment in order to produce their product(s). It must be designed to run at highspeeds, dependability, etc. You would be amazed at some of the machines I have worked on. I am a special equipment technician and some of the machines my fellow co-workers have engineered are totally mind blowing! I have also worked on many machines that I could have hunted the designer down and beat him half to death! All in all though, the job is very rewarding and the pay aint to bad either! I wish I would have followed my friends advice though. He and I started work together in the same field. The only difference was I stuck it out helping design, debug, and maintain such equipment for someone else. He got out after he learned the trade and started a small pick and place company and at the ripe old age of 40 ended up retired, in Florida, and pursues his motorhead hobby by building racing machines. The guy sits on millions!
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Try this: http://www.rp-photonics.com/pockels_cells.html
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You will need a laser diode. Other laser types (gas, solid state) usually have much larger cavities then a semiconductor laser, and therefore are much larger. As far as finding a laser diode, There are companies that make them, although the only one I know off the top of my head is Tyco, and they make laser diodes for fiber optic applications which are around 1 micrometer (wave length), which is in the infrared range. You'll have to do some searching. Other then the laser diode, a resistor (to control the current) and a voltage source (battery) should be all you need (I've never tried to actually make one, but I am an Electrical Engineering student).
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Hmm. . its pretty rare stuff so you are not going to hand out samples\nSince it was once used in lasers you could start your presentation with a laser light show, or just a simple laser pointer\nPresent the information chronologically, show how and why it was discovered (it started as a blank square on the Periodic Table of the Elelments) talk about it uses and why it was replaced\ngood luck
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My husband went to Lima, Peru about 15 yrs ago and brought me home some beautiful peices of silver.  They mine silver there and it is extremely reasonable.  Maybe you could try searching the web for some wholesalers out of Peru.  Just a thought.  I didn't understand you to say you were going on-line to sell these, do you have a storefront or what?
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To get a good start, try www.howstuffworks.com.\nLook in the back of a textbook to see where the editors got their information.\nFind out which companies develop/research chemical lasers then look at their websites.
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Hello. I recently purchased an HP 3600n Color Laser* from Office Depot to replace 2 of my three printers. To date I am very happy with the results. It did not completely replace my HP G85, since it is also my primary fax machine. It did however replace my Lexmark 4039 10Plus and all primary color printing. It still leaves me with an OkiData 390 to print labels. I use the 5000 box of continious feed labels, so at the moment there is nothing I can do about replacing it. Between my two companies, the wifes eBay and the three kids printing daily, we print a case of paper a month (5000 sheets).\nI would have loved to have purchased an all-in-one color laser but all things consided I am very happy.\nOne thing that swayed me to the HP, in that price range, was it came with a print server built in.\n\nI hope this helpped.
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That is a loaded question, that could require a lot of time and space to answer.\nYou definitly have some research a head of you.\nI would begin first to define who my customers are. Once this is done then you can direct your marketing efforts towards that customer.\nTo understand what will motivate your customers to purchase is wrapped up in what they precieve they need. They are not buying lighting equipment, but what it does for them.\nBest Wishes\nJohn
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there is a company called schrodinger, or something close t o that.\nthey make lasers measureing tools for the semiconductor and other industrues. they are in massachusetts.
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Jasmine - to improve this website you have to ask yourself a lot of questions. Who are they trying to appeal to? What do they want the viewer to do? Who is the competition? What position in the marketplace do they want to own?\nFrom a quick look at the site, I don't think it was meant for me - the average Joe. It seems to be focused on business to business. It's basically an online catalog. What's good about this? Any plumber or repair guy can go online and order the part they need. What's bad? The company comes off as a parts distributor with no true personality. A part is a part.\nFrom PD customer's perspective, why should they go to PD instead of Lowe's or some other parts company? Without a brand, PD is competing on price. That ain't good.\nI don't see anything on the site about the company except "In business for decades." What's the company's story? Why was there a need to open this business and why has it been successful? Do they make the best epoxy resin parts? Can they handle orders no one else can? What tolerances do they manufacture to? Who have they done business with? Do they supply parts to Her Majesty the Queen? Why PD?\nProfessionally, I think "Plastic Depot" is as generic as you can get in a company name. At least "South Bay Plastics" might have made me feel good about ordering from you guys if I was from the south bay area. A name is a big part of the brand. The Plastic Depot name and logo is about as engaging as a beige wall.\nWhat's ironic is your web address is plastic depotS .com and your name is plastic depot (with no "s"). I know the problems with getting the address of a common name but it seems silly to invest money into a new name that won't come up on the web when I type it out.\nCompare PD with Starbucks. Or even, check out http://www.snapon.com/ - their website has personality and they know the power of a brand. Even Home Depot knows how to make you feel good about ordering online from them. \nEven online, you want to differentiate yourself. You want to stand out. You want any viewer to come away with your main message - what makes DP the best company to do business with? Okay, they do plastics. And???\nPlastic Depot web site is organized the way PD does business. It might make sense to the company, but not to the consumer. How would somebody really use this? If I need a pump for my boat - wouldn't I want to look under the "marine" section to see what parts are available? Why must I sort through all you different kinds of pumps to find what I need?\nThere's an expression in advertising - sell the sizzle, not the steak. This web site is only selling steak. Look at http://www.napaautoparts.com/ - they too are selling parts. Yet they make the web site more attractive and easier to navigate.\nIt'd be helpful to find info on what plastics are best with which projects. What are the benefits of the acrylic fabrication? \nI don't easily get from the web site that I can order custom plastic parts. Should I? Just because PD may be a b2b company, doesn't mean it should be boring.\n\nWhat does it need? IMHO, it needs a makeover. It needs a page or pages that tells me the PD story. It needs to reassure me that the parts I order will be right the first time (if the parts are wrong or cracked, PD will delay my schedule and cost me money). It needs to organize the information into chunks that make sense. Someone looking for a football case does not care that PD makes ventilation ducts. The site needs to answer the FAQ under the tech advice. (If PD is the expert, here's their chance to shine and show off.) It needs buttons that work - I can't get back to "home" when I'm on a different page.\nIn essence, I'd recommend PD hire an ad agency or design firm and talk to pros about how they can build a site that goes beyond just cataloging the PD inventory. People do business wit
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I think everyone else has answered this pretty clearly.  NASA looked into constructing 'solar sail ships' for space travel.  A solar powered laser placed near the sun would generate a focussed beam of mono-phasic laser light that would be directed onto an extremely light ship which maximised surface area to mass/volume by use of a special sail.  This would provide a small forward acceleration away from the laser.\n\nHowever, on Earth.. as indicated.. its a bit impracticle with present power source technologies.  You may want to think about approaching to problem of fusion power and then minimizing the technology for youur application ( a long time field of research.. not an overnight job!!).\n\nGood luck!
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heheh... good luck with that.  On a laser printer, you'd be changing the cartridge so many times, it would wind up being cheaper to buy them.  You are talking well over 10,000 pages on a standard printer...\n\nBuy the CD's or the subscription...\nhttp://www.nfpa.org/categoryList.asp?categoryID=124&URL=Codes%20and%20Standards\nhttp://www.nfpa.org
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I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who hates Toppers!!\n\nPersonaly, I'd stick with the Laser for now and work your way up through the Radial and Full Rigs. \n\nThere are quite a few folk I know who have switched from Lasers to RS700's and to the double handed RS200 which I'm told are very fun and exciting to sail once you've got the hang of them. Here are their websites.\n\n\nhttp://www.rssailing.com/fleets.asp?fleet=RS700\n\nhttp://www.rssailing.com/fleets.asp?fleet=RS200
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Try this link:\n\nhttp://www.scitoys.com/scitoys/scitoys/light/cd_spectroscope/spectroscope.html\n\nThe link below shows how to make a spectroscope, too, only at first glance it seemed a whole lot more complicated.\n\nhttp://www.uwm.edu/~awschwab/specweb.htm\n\nHope it helps! Good luck! :D
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You could try a search on Google using "liquid lasers."\n\nSolid state, semiconductor, and gas lasers are more common than liquid lasers.\n\nMost liquid lasers are made with an organic dye - a kind of phosphorescent material suspended in a liquid.  Commercially available liquid lasers are usually called dye lasers, but not all dye lasers are liquid.\n\nFrequently liquid dye lasers are excited by a flashlamp.\n\nThe advantage of a liquid dye laser is that the output wavelength is "tunable," that is, you can select over a broad range what the output wavelength will be.\n\nI'll give a link in Sources to a recent article co-written by a friend of mine, Dave Titterton, who is a world renown expert in this field.  Go to link and click on the article called "From flashlamp-pumped Liquid Lasers to Diode-Pumped Solid-State Dye Lasers."
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Smoke or fog will work.  There are also 100mW red lasers out there (wickedlasers.com should do the trick) that have some visibility in daylight, but this always depends on there being something (even the tiniest amount of dust) in the air to scatter off of.