Lasers at the Joss Research Institute

• A straightforward low-pressure nitrogen laser design intended for DIY folks

  I am also working on some more advanced designs; you may want to take a look at the low-pressure nitrogen laser pageset that is among my research reports, though you will want to be aware that I include lots of information about failures as well as successes, so you are probably in for a bit of a slog.
  
  

• A straightforward room-pressure air or nitrogen laser design that provides good performance without requiring expensive or hard-to-obtain parts or materials, and which can be constructed without access to a machine shop.
  
  
• A somewhat more advanced room-pressure air or nitrogen laser that is also relatively inexpensive and does not require expensive or hard-to-obtain parts or materials, but is significantly less easy to construct.
  
  
• An unhappy discussion of the Scientific American “Amateur Scientist” nitrogen laser or, to be more accurate, of Jim Small’s explanation of it.
  
  
• Rebuilding a damaged Avco-Everett C5000 nitrogen laser head that we acquired surplus on eBay
  
  
• Testing and using a surplus Molectron [low-pressure] nitrogen laser, also acquired on eBay (includes some information about tuning organic dyes that you are pumping with the nitrogen laser)
  
  
• Repairing, checking, and using a PRA LN-1000 [TEA] nitrogen laser, also acquired on eBay, with a note about tuning organic dyes under TEA-N2 pumping
  
  
• A bit more information about nitrogen-pumping organic dye lasers
  
  
• A “photographic tuning curve” for 4-Methyl-Umbelliferone, pumped by a low-pressure nitrogen laser
  
  
• A photographic tuning curve for 7-Diethylamino-4-Methyl-Coumarin, under flashlamp pumping
  
  
• A flashlamp-pumped organic dye laser that I built primarily from parts we acquired on eBay, with a photographic tuning curve for Rhodamine 6G

Please see The list of Research Reports for more information about lasers and other things I work on.

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