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From: palmer@tallis.enet.dec.com (Colonel Mode)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: nitrogen laser
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Date: 9 Apr 91 18:24:32 GMT
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cshort@nmsu.edu (Spmg*d, Lord of Potted Meat Product) writes...
> 
>hi, i was talking to a fellow at work and he mentioned
>how easy it was to build a superflouresing ultraviolet
>nitrogen laser that would work well as a pump source.
> 
>does anyone know anything about a beast such as this?

Scientific American published instructions on how to build such a laser in the
Amateur Scientist column back in the early seventies when C.L. Stong was still
writing it. Check it out.

Chris Palmer
palmer@tallis.enet.dec.com "Colonel Mode"
work:(508)486-6667