Photos of Laserscope Green YAG Laser Systems

• Laserscope Medical Laser Systems (Gallery)

  (The following photos and descriptions provided courtesy of: Curt Graber (cgraber@fwi.com).)

  • View 01 - Three units side-by-side. The two on the left are air-cooled units and the one on the right is a water-cooled slightly older unit with a separate IR (1064 nm) and VIS (532 nm) fiber outputs.

  • View 02 - 4 kW switching power supply (230 VAC, 40 A primary input) and air-to-water cooler unit.

  • View 03 - Controller board with many interlocks to deal with should you wish to hot-rod this medical laser with the computer intact. (-;

  • View 04 - A look into the sun any one? Two pairs of glasses for me thank you.

  • View 05 - Top view with cover off of the optics tray.

  • View 06 - Big... BIG green power.

  • View 07 - Who say's optics loose little power? A close look at a couple of the bending optics steering the beam through the optics tray.

  • View 08 - Another closeup of the 20+ W beam as it travels down stream from the KTP and output coupler, pieces viewable here are low speed shutters.

  • View 09 - Front view of the unit with the hood up and face open, little T-handle in white is a external wired power calibration unit.

  • View 10 - Side view of the cavity and steering and shutters.

  • View 11 - Lots of sensors and polarizer pieces. These units run the arc lamp at 100% rated power all the time and they vary the output power with a circular polarized disk which varies the polarization and thus attenuates output power Note the purple glow on the optics holders the camera picked up however your eye's would not until it's way to late... (Huge IR power is way dangerous from an eyesight standpoint.)

  • View 12 - 1.0 W of 532 nm ready to fly.

  • View 13 - 1.0 W of 532 nm in full light through the 275 foot building terminated on the other end into a blackboard.

  • View 14 - 10 W of 532 nm ready to fly.

  • View 15 - Big highly divergent beam with a good 10 W power.

  • View 16 - Lights out camera isn't sure of what to focus on. (-;

  • View 17 - 20 W of 532 nm ready to fly.

  • View 18 - That's one bright beam even with all the lights on and look at the scattered of the beam stop in the next room at distance it almost lights up the other room's 7,500 square foot area.

  • View 19 - Far from a 100 micron clean room dust is ever present and very visible when illuminated with this much power.

  • View 20 - Another top view of part of the cavity and optics tray. The YAG and arc-lamp are under the cover with the High Voltage warning sign.

  • View 21 - Most of the optics tray. Lower left is the output coupler for the 532 nm (VIS) and HR for the 1064 nm (IR) of the Z-fold resonator and square black box is the RF Q-switch (10 kHz). Upper right is the KTP oven and holder assembly optic just above the Q-switch is the HR for both 1064 and 532 nm. Another HR 1064/532 nm for the cavity-end is just the other side of the cavity.

  • View 22 - Rear end of the cavity and the aforementioned 1064/532 HR.

  • View 23 - Unit powered up going through its self diagnosis.

  • View 24 - Footswitch that starts the laser operating.

  • View 25 - Rear cover with 40 A, 2 pole breaker and a 10 gauge 3 conductor power cable. Water-cooled units would also have the water in and out ports back here.

  • View 26 - A glimpse of green with the hood up and unit lasing at 532 and 1064 nm. This is way dangerous unless you have the best eye wear.

  • View 27 - Thick black plastic cover back on and ready for the next showing

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