I bought a used Argon Ion Laser off of a forum to get started in gas lasers . As you can see, this thing isn't small.
Firing up the beast !
Idle mode
Full Power
The beam color is very cool because it is made up of 8 individual colors.
When the beam is split through a diffraction grating .
these individual colors become apparent.
This effect is awesome in fog!
At full Power, this laser outputs 60 mW.
This laser is terribly inefficient.
Obligatory match light and balloon pop
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