....Anyway, I am not a physics professor....but doing my best to understand it all
If anybody has suggestions, please write them down , here
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Steve
I'm no physics professor either. When I recently starting reading up on SM's patents... things in me clicked. I just have a lot of practical experience with light, vibration and electromagnetism in my professional career. (Hands-On Stuff) I'm just getting started with my first design and from my training as a mech engineer I do my research first and go forward with the design. In regards to who gets there 1st, that's not important. If I can help the effort that's good enough for me. I just want my kids to grow up in a better world. Isn't that what life is about?
In regards to the LED stuff, I played around with laser beams back in the early 80's in industrial construction using them for critical alignments (We used +/- 0.015” tolerances for distances of 180 feet. Thermal Expansion Coefficient of metal and 40 degree F temperature change between morning and mid-day really screwed with that job. The steel would expand and contract an inch over 180’.) Anyways, it was the red light type. Maybe a ruby or garnet or maybe a germanium crystal. I do know that germanium is great on the infrared side.
Here’s some more stuff on getting the LED intensity increased…
On the red/blue comparison side I found this... -->
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electronic/led.htmlPretty simple with explaining differences between Red and Blue LED's.
Gallium nitride GaN LED's is probably the way to go. They are found in HD DVD Players and Recorders and probably the DVD “
burners”.
C/P --> A blue DPSS laser is an alternative to a blue semiconductor laser. They most often lase at 473 nm, which is produced by frequency doubling of 946 nm laser radiation from a
diode-pumped Nd:YAG or Nd:YVO4 crystal. For high output power BBO crystals are used as frequency doublers. For lower optical powers, KTP or periodically poled KTP (PPKTP) crystals are used.
Whole Article -->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_laser#DPSS_lasersIn regards to pumping things real fast…What are we really trying to pump?
See Laser Pumping -->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_pumpingAlso, check out the Flash Lamp link in this Laser pumping article -->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_flash_lampAlso, Diode Pumped Solid State Lazers article -->
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode_pumped_solid_state_laserThanks again for your welcome to the board.
Thanks too for the push with getting a cell started and hooking it straight up to a 12v battery. You are right! I gotta start somewhere.
GBU
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