High Energy Ruby Laser in Action

[aperturescience138]

The final step is to calibrate the voltage, and attach a plasma tube comprised of Neon, and weaponized it into a laser rifle from fallout 3.

[greg77389]

I'm going to make this laser in pistol form just like the ones from Fallout >:)

[Dvs35]

nice ! but a bit heavy on 1000 volts , en weight ;-)

but nice try

[gamegeni3]

omfg i see a star wars blaster popping up soon

[Termi87ITA]

How much is this laser rod or similar laser rod? And the flash lamp?

[laserma]

is your laser Q switched?

thanks

[hanzmann33]

No - its not q-switched.

Longpulse 5/1000 sec.

BR

Hans

[talktoyourself]

Amazing video 5 stars! BUT the only thing this is missing, is the video of the laser shot viewed on a high-speed camera. Great vid!

[sinebar]

I need one of those big white square caps to complete my ruby laser project.  Do you know where I can find one?

[boxa888]

really, nikola tesla made the ruby laser in 1889 while demonstrating different types of stumilated emmission of materials in a vacuum tube. when exciting a ruby droplet, it created a perfect straight line that extended out of the vaccuum tube, tesla talks about right in his high voltage high frequency notes and shows picture of this stright laser like beam from the tube, its amazing! its sad what they did to tesla! he discovered the laser in 1889!!!!

[angeles1371]

i wanna see some human experimenting or maybe flak jacket experiment

[MrDjPaddy]

ich frage mich wie viel das insgesamt gekostet haben muss?!

aber gute erfindung

[tomasdoc2002]

You are using decommissioned distance measuring laser head from tank, (I bought mine from Meredith Instruments by the way, now available on ebay) and home brew HV power supply with flash trigger. Obviously you are not using the build in Q-Switch which was pain in the ass to set up. Great job anyways!

[SeekSoulz]

And this my friends, is what Terrorists do for fun :)

[wiseye61]

looks kinda fun :]

[lukeskywalkerlol]

porn music???

[mynameiscaleb]

if you held your hand out at about 10cm. would it burn through in a seccond. i realy think you should do some real burning, not pissy balloon popping.

awesome laser though!

[Daedronus]

How large is the ruby rod that you are using?

[supressor2]

hallo, mir gefällt ihr viedo mich würde interessiren wie der musik tietel heist

mfg martin

[supressor2]

nice ,

how u pump the ruby stab?

[chilirainbow69]

and i assume every german has biozard lazer building technology in their garage.

[zourkas06]

naturally

[XavierAXB]

Are you implying that a laser can't be made from materials found in a garage? Despite what sci-fi may lead you to believe, solid-state laser technology is really very simple.

[Fatvod]

I just cummed everywhere. I wish I could make one of those but I guess ill just have to stick with my 100 Mw Wicked Laser.

[Amadeus9966]

Super Video, schade, dass so wenig über den Rubinlaser bei YouTube zu finden ist.

[lookn4thepowpow]

unfortunetly enemy armor is thicker than 1mm

[ludwiggy69]

wow a portable one of those would be nice for home protection and whatnot.

[pmgodfrey]

-ludwiggy69- A laser should not be used for home protection...unless you want to slowly burn a small area on the intruder while they stand very still for a while. Handguns are effective, shotguns being ideal and they're far less expensive. No *portable* laser today can do any damage in a short burst (any damage, meaning lethal). A large frame 5 watt argon/ion will burn really bad, but it won't blow a hole through your hand instantly.

[ludwiggy69]

wow thanks for that information i'll just stick to my guns then lol!

[DevilMaster]

I wonder what the performance of a 400W Synrad Firestar F400 would be against a human intruder :-D

[gvsfgdf]

come over to my house and we'll find out XD

[tim300cx5]

hey you should use beam spliters and pop, lots of ballons

[rachm06]

In the first model(1800 uF) do you use an inductor as pulse forming network? which value?

[metalheadman]

wow that thing will go straight through someones gut or bone

[Sinnfeinster]

The sound that is emitted when the laser discharges is the same sound heard after lightnig or a gunshot. The high energy (or velocity, in the case of bullets) forces the oxygen moloculed to ignite, sending the molocules around them firing out at tremendous velocities. The vacuum created by the retreating air then sucks the air back at an equal and opposite velocity. The molocules colide and the massive amount of energy causes the clapping sound you hear.

[phazonxl]

(it goes boom)

[BrandonRDillon]

its a death beam have u test on what it would do to fleash like a piece of meat or bone

[pcbman1st]

Fantastic video footage. Good job.

[dodecafono]

Hi, I have some questions. Is the sound of the laser pulse produced by the pulse itself when arrives to the target surface? I mean, is that a kind of "audible example" of the radiation pressure? What is the output (or optical) power of the laser? How electrical power do you need to feed the laser?

Thanks!

[rachm06]

I think that the sound is from the electrical discharge inside the flash lamp, which should provide very high energy.Or may the sound of a spark gap..

[johnstarr2001]

Looks like the sound is from air igniting in the path of the laser. Look at the slow motion video.

[aopdjasldksa]

it is igniting air, it's similar to lighting =D

[giorgios007]

iu

[cyrillium1960]

beautifull!!!

[fenixwylde]

would be nice to see a blueprint :)

[rachm06]

Amazing!I have some questions: where did you get the ruby?what kind of flash lamps was?a xenon one?It is possible to make a constant flow of laser light using an intermittent flash lamp?

[hanzmann33]

Hi

The oscillator was a Hughes Rangefinder System buildt for military applications and uses one Perkin Elmer Mod. 103 Xenon-Flashlamp. A Rubylaser runs only in Pumpmode - Experiments using a CW-Lamp to run in permanent Operation never really worked well because it takes to much Pumpenergy and Cooling. Actually systems operating up to 30 Hz.

BR, Hanzmann

[sazono]

aaaaaaaaah!!! too much info!!! although i do have a basic understanding of how a L.A.S.E.R. works