Lasermax Green

[the iceman]

Will Lasermax ever come out with an internal green laser? I want to purchase another one but I am holding off in hopes that a internal green one comes out.

Does anyone have any information?

[dwebb210]

I'm going to guess battery size is a huge issue.

The green laser is a hungry beast.

[8541/9999]

Until they come out with a solid state green laser diode the engineers do not plan to put it into the guide rod models. The Unimax will continue to be the smallest package a green laser can be in be fully adjustable and asorb the weapons recoil without breaking or losing alignment and have a 3 yrs warranty.

[dwebb210]

Originally posted by 8541/9999
Until they come out with a solid state green laser diode the engineers do not plan to put it into the guide rod models. The Unimax will continue to be the smallest package a green laser can be in be fully adjustable and asorb the weapons recoil without breaking or losing alignment and have a 3 yrs warranty.

The unimax green IS a solid state green laser diode.

[8541/9999]

Actually its an I.R. laser diode.

[dwebb210]

Originally posted by 8541/9999
Actually its an I.R. laser diode.

My apologies. You are right.

[8541/9999]

no apologies necessary we all need some education some times. I didnt know it either until I started to work in the laser industry.

[RayB]

I don't get it...

There are IR LEDs and IR laser diodes.

There are red LEDs and red laser diodes.

There are blue LEDs and blue laser diodes.

There are green LEDs and NO Green Laser Diodes. :headscratch:

--Ray

[8541/9999]

Look at it this way Ray B if you build one we ( Lasermax) will come:supergrin:

[RayB]

Do I have to do EVERYTHING? :upeyes:

--Ray

[Mark 19]

I saw a green laser set up for Weaver / Picitinny mount at a Utah (St. George, CrossRoads of the West) gun show today. It was by Eagle Eye Optics, who ran the booth and claimed to be a Phoenix AZ company. I held it in my hand, and pushed the remote switch, and saw the green dot. It was $200 list, but they were discounting everything by 20%. (I bought a Reflex Sight for 20% off, with both green and red reticules.) I almost bought the laser, but am happy with my Red, frankly!

[gsxrawd]

dumb question, but is there any advantage of green over red? or is it all personal preference?

[sdsnet]

The green is much brighter and the human eye sees bright green easier than red.

[dwebb210]

If you did a side-by-side comparison of a 5mW green and 5mW
red, the green would appear much brighter because your eyes
are more sensitive to that color. It is closer to the
middle of the spectrum of colors you can see.

Since it takes time for your eyes to adjust to see better in
the dark, and red light doesn't affect that adjustment, some
people prefer the red laser because they want to do anything
they can to preserve their night eyes.

Many people say they shy away from green because being a
shorter wavelength and a brighter light, the beam itself is
much easier to see. (shorter wavelength light more easily
scatters off stuff in the air, which is why the sky appears
blue) People are afraid that the "bad guy" will see the beam
and trace it back to the source, revealing your location.

For someone like me who wants to use a green laser in
conjunction with a weapons light, revealing my position to
a "bad guy" isn't a concern. My concern is being able to
rapidly aquire the laser dot when the bad guy is flooded
with a bright light. So for me, green is better.

Finally, the cost is an issue. Green currently costs about
twice as much as red for the same device.

[Mark 19]

Agreed. Green (yellow too) is in the center of the eye's response band where the eye is most efficient, whereas red is on one end of what the eye can see (blue-violet at the other).

The green lasers usually have an electrically pumped laser that emits in the 800nm range and stimulates a second optically pumped laser that emits in the low 1000s (1064 nm) which then runs through a frequency double (wavelength halver) to produce a green beam in the mid 500s (532 nm). Its a more complicated system than the red lasers, which are electrically pumped and then emit directly in the reds without a lot of mucking around.