Re: Stealing Celestial Fire

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Original poster: Ben McMillen <spoonman534@xxxxxxxxx>

Terry,
   That is correct. There are no moving parts. However, the
crystal is contained in a cooling block that is water
cooled. The only thing you'd have to worry about is
isolating the cooling water supply. I think if it gets too
hot, it'll crack and then no more lasing. ;) Other than
that, it should work quite well..

Coiling In Pittsburgh
Ben McMillen

--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Original poster: Terry Fritz
> <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Gerry,
>
> The Titanium Sapphire laser is a solid crystal laser
> charged pumped from
> say a 5W argon laser.
>
>
http://www.lasalle.edu/academ/chem/laser_web/titanium_sapphire_laser.htm
>
> The titanium laser has no real moving or electronics
> parts from what I
> understand.  This is interesting in that it could be
> "floated" above ground
> potential.  Thus you could have the laser "switch"
> floating at say 500kV AC
> and turn it on from say 100 feet away by hitting it with
> the Argon
> laser.  Almost a perfect super-HV super high-current
> totally isolated switch!!
>
> I think the price of the Ti lasers are pretty reasonable
> too and they
> should have a very long life.
>
> Cheers,
>
>          Terry
>
>
> At 11:54 PM 4/20/2005, you wrote:
> >I can just see it now.  The lightning follows the
> ionized filament all the
> >way to the laser.  No more laser :o))Gerry
> >
> >>Original poster: Terry Fritz
> <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >>At 01:59 PM 4/20/2005, you wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>They employed their Teramobile laser, whose pulse
> lasts for a mere 100
> >>>femtoseconds and packs a peak power of 5 terawatts
> >>>
> >>>That's 100E-15 seconds * 5E12 Watts = 0.5 Joules... if
> I got my prefixes
> >>>right...
> >>
> >>WOW!!  The light pulse is only just over 1/1000 inch
> long!!  Even if it
> >>is just 0.5 joule, I don't think I would want to get in
> it's way!!
> >>
> >>The spark seems very straight and uniform!
> >>
> >>I see they use the little semi-spheres for the top in
> what I think is a
> >>HV multiplier in there lab picture.
> >>
> >>Cheers,
> >>
> >>         Terry
> >>
>
>>><http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/apr05/0405nlas.html>
> >>
> >
>
>
>

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