From: "Kevin White"
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Subject: Re: Scary, high voltage power supplies. (7Kv, 50A, 50ns, 20Khz)
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In the April 1990 issue of Scientific American there was an article in the
Amateur Scientist column that created a copper chloride laser. It used a
spark gap to create the high-current bursts.
The article is on the Amateur Scientist collection CD Rom that was issued a
year or so
kevin
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> I'm interested in making a copper-halide vapour laser.
>
> This is basically a tube with .01 bar of helium/neon in, some copper
> chloride (or bromide), which is heated to 400C, and large pulses of power
> applied.
> This results in a bright green laser beam, with around 1% of the input
> energy, in an ideal case.
>
> I can get to 7Kv 50ma easily (microwave transformer, and a few diodes
> and caps).
>
> I'm less sure exactly how to go about pulsing it, though I am clear
> that I'll be doing it from another room, doubling up on all the
> switches and bypass resistors, and having voltmeters on all the caps.
>
> I assume there is no easy way of building a transformer capable of going
> from a 50ns 500A 700V pulse to 7Kv (I have a large number of BUZ80 800V,
4A
> FETs around).
>
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks.
>
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