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Dear George (Sorry for the double whammy! I meant to reply to all...),

I have been in contact with Wicked lasers about controlling their laser
via Arduino, with limited success. They say they will look into it, but I
somehow doubt that they take me seriously... I would like to use it for
Light Sheet Microscopy made with a cylindrical lens, so it wouldn't be as
critical in terms of beam quality as it would be for Laser Scanning
Confocal Microscopy.

Maybe if we all made a concerted effort to express our interests in using
their "inexpensive" lasers in our Mad Science labs, they would take a
hint... ;-)

You could almost pump a Mira 900 with their 532 nm laser*!!

Regards,
Pete

*That being the only real use for such a laser line, and for sexy laser
pointers that is...

On Sat, August 18, 2012 3:23 pm, George McNamara wrote:
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| Dear listserv,
|
| has anyone put these wickedlasers (or equivalent price/power) on
| confocal, MSIM, single molecule localization etc scope (and figured out
| how to control on/off, intensity, from USB or other port)?
|
|
http://www.wickedlasers.com/krypton?utm_source=Wicked+Lasers+New&utm_campaign=bd89072d39-S3_August_20128_17_2012&utm_medium=email
| 532 nm,   750 mW, $999.95, Spyder Krypton
| 445 nm, 1250 mW, $399.95, Spyder Arctic
|
| If you have, web page or other instructions, on how would be great.
|
| George
| p.s. if someone can explain to me (without cheating by asking the
| company) the choice of glasses in the home page video,
| http://www.wickedlasers.com/index.php , that would be great. If you make
| it through the first video, click on the Arctic Popcorn video link. And
| of course, "do not look at laser with remaining eye".
|


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Peter Gabriel Pitrone - TechRMS
Microscopy/Imaging Specialist
Prof. Dr. Pavel Tomancak group
Max Planck Institute for
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Pfotenhauerstr. 108
01307 Dresden

"If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points." - Anon.