Ah this is such a fabulous real-life demonstration of laser diode polarization. Great video, thank you for diving into the interesting fabrication details!!
This is a cool series. Can't wait for the rest. You might be interested in how easy it is to make an intentionally polarizing beamsplitter by coupling two glass prisms with a capiliary layer of melted sodium nitrate between them all sitting on a cleaved mica sheet to orient the crystal growth direction.
I work in glass manufacturing and in quality department of the car windows so will be cool to show the quality of our imported glass. It is float glass, sometimes it feels really smooth and razor blade will glide on it sometimes really rough.
Awesome so far, i have recently been getting interested in starting my own optics project, nothing nearly as involved as this, but just have no clue on where to source some of the parts...
These things are nice, using an LED conversion matrix to convert different programs, into beams of color-coordinated light. These beams, can be refracted, using a secondary array, again translating various programs into angles of lenses. Which project into a globe, filled with nebulized liquids, or gasses, etc... To be used to display a 3D hologram, within a globe. This globe, could have a touch screen applied to the outer layer. This globe could contain light, refracted through water droplets, and mirrors, and lenses, Or ionized gasses Based on data conversion through a GPU....
You might consider to start with a higher grit (about 200 should be good) and then work your way down over 400, 600, 1200 to 2000 grit. That way, you will have no breakouts anymore at the edges of the grind.
I'm loving where this is going. Was that 800 grit whetstone by chance? I have a 2000 diamond lap but think that'll be a bit of a grind to get to dimension... I'll get me coat
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Ah this is such a fabulous real-life demonstration of laser diode polarization. Great video, thank you for diving into the interesting fabrication details!!
This is a cool series. Can't wait for the rest. You might be interested in how easy it is to make an intentionally polarizing beamsplitter by coupling two glass prisms with a capiliary layer of melted sodium nitrate between them all sitting on a cleaved mica sheet to orient the crystal growth direction.
That sounds very interesting, do you have any resources, where I can read more about this?
That Fizeau interferometer idea is just genius!
Really loving this series. Thanks for sharing.
This is so cool device! I would never do something like this, but that is such satisfaction to just watch somebody did
I work in glass manufacturing and in quality department of the car windows so will be cool to show the quality of our imported glass. It is float glass, sometimes it feels really smooth and razor blade will glide on it sometimes really rough.
you know this guy is legit because his glass didn't explode and fill his hand with glass fragments when he used the glass cutter
I Love this Project, can't wait to see more ❤
Greate job mate 👍
I'm exited for this project! Great job so far!
Thanx for sharing, I really like this video series!
Awesome so far, i have recently been getting interested in starting my own optics project, nothing nearly as involved as this, but just have no clue on where to source some of the parts...
These things are nice, using an LED conversion matrix to convert different programs, into beams of color-coordinated light.
These beams, can be refracted, using a secondary array, again translating various programs into angles of lenses.
Which project into a globe, filled with nebulized liquids, or gasses, etc...
To be used to display a 3D hologram, within a globe.
This globe, could have a touch screen applied to the outer layer.
This globe could contain light, refracted through water droplets, and mirrors, and lenses,
Or ionized gasses
Based on data conversion through a GPU....
You might consider to start with a higher grit (about 200 should be good) and then work your way down over 400, 600, 1200 to 2000 grit. That way, you will have no breakouts anymore at the edges of the grind.
Also, a rotary grinding machine (whis is easily built) will much improve grinding exact 90deg angles.
I'm loving where this is going. Was that 800 grit whetstone by chance? I have a 2000 diamond lap but think that'll be a bit of a grind to get to dimension...
I'll get me coat
It wasn't labeled but I think 300-800 grit will work.
What grit of diamond whetstone do you recommend?
I think roughly between 300-800 grit is fine. Unfortunately mine was not labeled.