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There are some mighty powerful LEDs being produced these days. How about using one or more of them instead of laser diodes for the pump source?

April 26, 2017days Diodes laser LEDs Mighty powerful produced pump source

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There are some mighty powerful LEDs being produced these days. How about using one or more of them instead of laser diodes for the pump source?

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For the purposes of Nd:YAG or Nd:YVO4 lasers, what would actually be needed is more correctly called an IRED – Infra-Red Emitting Diode. But I will simply call them LEDs as that’s what we all know and love. Yes, an LED pumped green laser pointer would still be a laser pointer but would contain only one laser instead of two! 🙂 Unfortunately, for the most part, this isn’t practical.