A DIY Pockels cell!
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I am an Amateur Scientist inspired by the old Sci-Am articles of the same name! I build home-made Lasers, Electronics projects, Computers and am interested in Chemistry & Physics, and publish these on YouTube. Support on YouTube has enabled me to share my work with like minded people, get one of my creations published in IEEE Sensors Letters, and even design and build a Supercontinnum Laser at home and on a budget, for what appears to be the first time! If you found this content useful, and would like to support this Channel, please consider supporting this work on Patreon: https://patreon.com/leslaboratory Or donate directly: https://paypal.me/leslaboratory Alternatively, please share this content on your social media platforms, it really helps me out! Contact: [email protected]
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Episode 67 #laser #optics #highvoltage Lets build a Pockels cell from a home-grown Potassium Di-Hydrogen Phosphate Crystal! An excellent resource for optical engineering: https://www.youtube.com/user/huygensoptics If you found this content useful, and would like to support this Channel, please consider supporting this work on Patreon: https://patreon.com/leslaboratory Or donate directly: https://paypal.me/leslaboratory Alternatively, please share this content on your social media platforms, it really helps me out! 0:00 Intro 00:21 The Pockels effect 01:14 Commercial Pockels Cells 01:20 Scientific American The Amateur Scientist 02:38 Crystal Growing 02:43 Cutting crystals 03:24 A home made diamond wire cutting machine! 04:51 Cutting KDP crystals 06:12 Grinding and Polishing 07:31 Index matching 08:50 Polishing 09:36 The effect of polarization birefringence: Isogyre, Isochrome, melatope 10:56 Making a Pockels cell 12:08 Pockels Cell demonstration 13:21 Demo with a Laser! 14:29 Future work 14:42 Outro
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