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Today it snowed, yesterday it did not. Yesterday on my pre-dawn walk.the shimobashira and frozen earth glimmered under torch light. Somewhat reminiscent of a star field, stars blinking in and out of existence. As I walked, the earth made a distinctive
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This is one of a few 532nm laser modules I picked up on eBay, from memory output power was measured in the low 100s of mWs using the optical power…
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I’ve unfortunately let this substack sit idle for far too long. I have in fact, about 100 posted queued up of “things” I’ve taken pictures of but so far…
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Today I decided to take a look at a mode scrambler. The mode scrambler shown here takes multimode fiber as the input and output. It then “scrambles” the…
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Taking a break from Xenon light sources, today I’m going to take a brief look at an eBook reader I picked up in a local junk shop. These are similar to…
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Continuing my series of posts of Xenon light sources, today I’m posting a few pictures of a Ceramic Xenon lamp as used in the endoscopy light source…
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Today we have another Xenon light source, but this time we’re looking at a unit designed for scientific (or perhaps industrial process) applications…
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Yesterday I posted some pictures and thoughts on the Wolf’s optical system. Today, here are a few pictures of the electronics. Let’s start with that big…
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