Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
With advice from a guy commenting on my recent failed attempt to create my own X1 beam expander/collimator, I have been persuaded to revisit the X2 beam combiner I currently use on the RF Tangerine Tiger machine. He provided suggestions that had been successful for him, on how I may be able to improve the performance of that X2 device.
Followers of my journey will know of my mistrust of lens theory when it comes to mixing laser beams and lenses. This is yet another exsmple of how lens theroy may work perfectly for imaging but does not work for damaging.
This is an exercise in lens juggling and disdain for conventional optics. However, in parallel with this personal effort, I have challanged several global optics companies selling beam expanders, with this problem. Much as expected the silence has been deafening.
With advice from a guy commenting on my recent failed attempt to create my own X1 beam expander/collimator, I have been persuaded to revisit the X2 beam combiner I currently use on the RF Tangerine Tiger machine. He provided suggestions that had been successful for him, on how I may be able to improve the performance of that X2 device.
Followers of my journey will know of my mistrust of lens theory when it comes to mixing laser beams and lenses. This is yet another exsmple of how lens theroy may work perfectly for imaging but does not work for damaging.
This is an exercise in lens juggling and disdain for conventional optics. However, in parallel with this personal effort, I have challanged several global optics companies selling beam expanders, with this problem. Much as expected the silence has been deafening.
