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Sorry for the confusion. I wasn't clear enough about my question. You
are right, Craig. I'm looking for a laser line that's between 380nm
> Speaking of which, whatever happened to the promised solid state laser
> that is basically the same as the 405 nm but tuned to emit as short as
> 385 nm? I may be a bit off, but the DAPI fluorescence emission is about
> 7 times higher at 385 nm (~45% max) compared to 405 nm (~6% max).
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> Mario
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>> Ah, just realized I misunderstood your question. You just need a
>> laser line between 380 and 400. Your best bet there would be to
>> get a high-powered IR diode laser and use a crystal to double it.
>> A diode laser at 780nm doubled would give you 390nm.
>>
>> Craig
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>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Craig Brideau
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>> A CW laser is by definition narrowband; there's no way you can have
>> one with 20nm spectral bandwidth. The only thing I can think of
>> off hand that would give you the spectral range you are looking for
>> is an LED. The only other alternative would be something like a
>> supercontinuum (or so-called 'white' laser) but that emits over a
>> huge range and would be overkill. I'd recommend trying to find a
>> really powerful LED in that range, or even a bunch of lower-powered
>> LEDs bundled into an array.
>>
>> Craig
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>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:43 AM,
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> We are looking for a coherent (or continuous wave) laser ranging
>> from 380nm to 400nm. So far we haven't found anything impressive.
>> Does anyone know any laser between that range? Thanks a lot!
>>
>> Yue
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