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Happy Birthday, Ruby!

16th May 2020 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Above photo: My ruby laser with a ‘mirror alignment laser’ just off to the right hand side of the photo. A small amount of smoke in the air makes the alignment laser-beam visible. In the [more…]

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Making A Ruby Laser – Part Five

25th September 2018 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Melting a hole through steel: The above image needs a little explanation! The Doc messed up his camera settings and under exposed the image. So I loaded it into Gimp and played with the curves [more…]

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Making A Ruby Laser – Part Four

11th September 2018 Doc Mike Finnley 0

The Doc’s ruby laser focused onto a lighter flint. The flint has been glued to the end of a match stick. The ‘explosion’ measures approximately 4 inches diameter. Interesting things to note are the ‘candy [more…]

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Making A Ruby Laser – Part Three

14th August 2018 Doc Mike Finnley 0

More information on laser speckle can be found here:  Speckle pattern A Mirror Alignment Tool The most important part of constructing a ruby laser (or any laser with external mirrors) are getting the mirrors alligned [more…]

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Making A Ruby Laser – Part Two

31st July 2018 Doc Mike Finnley 0

(a ruby rod lit by two bright blue LEDs. Due to the IR filter in my camera the pink colour is actually red. What you are seeing is the absorption of the blue light and the [more…]

Engineering

Making A Ruby Laser – Part One

21st July 2018 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction For many years the Doc has had the desire to attempt the construction of a ruby laser. After six months of hard work, disappointment, late nights, lots of booze and a drained bank account [more…]

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