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From: spgreg@earth.lerc.nasa.gov (Greg Macrae)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Lasers for communication
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.194119.229@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Sep 90 19:41:19 GMT
References: <1872@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <153DAVE@ORION> <1990Sep13.020325.10622@nmt.edu> <7504@milton.u.washington.edu> <3809@osc.COM>
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In article <3809@osc.COM>, jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane) writes...
>and cool down.  My stupid laser takes half a minute just to turn on.

The delay before start of your laser is a government mandated safety feature
and likely has little to do with the potential performance of the laser 
itself.  

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     MacRae                  | Looking twice through the glass, I see
                             |           The bull watching
   spgreg@csd.lerc.nasa.gov  |             The torreador.
                             |                      -MacRae
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