What can I do with my Diode Pumped Laser

[ronateah]

I have a couple of lasers one that I have just listed one on ebay and the other I am trying to decide wether to put to use or not. I am a little worried about using them as I have no experiance with this stuff.

Should I keep the remaining laser and try and make use it. It is a spectra-physics J20 – BL10 - 106Q. The power supply is a 20 watt fibercoupled q switched supply and the bl10-106Q head is capable of 3 watts average output.

This is where I get confused and can't quite put a frame of reference on the power as output. Three watts does not mena much by itself. Interms of the pulse energy I have these specs.

Pulse width is 10nsec at 10khz
Average power of 3 watts at 30 khz
and pulse energy is 150uJ at 10Khz

J Series Q-switched YAG ND:YVO4 Laser system 2002

J20 Power supply and fiber coupled BL 10-106Q diode coupled laser head

J20-BL10-106Q - Specifications
J20 - 20watt
BL - Linear cavity single input
10 - Nominal 10 nsec @ 20khz PRF
106 - Nd:YVO4 is 1064 nm output
Q - Q switched

I still don't know what it will do at the end of the day. It would be great if some one could give and idea of what this laser is capable of processing.

[greybeard]

Have you considered asking the same question on alt.laser forum ?
John

[ronateah]

Originally Posted by greybeard Have you considered asking the same question on alt.laser forum ? John

John - I have not, this is a news group? I am sorry i have never subscribed to one before.