<br clear="all">I have the gold plated mirrors that reflect 10600nm radiation very well.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Mike Ayukawa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.ayukawa@gmail.com">mike.ayukawa@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi,<br>
I'm wondering if you are using mirrors typical for CO2 lasers or a traditional optical?<br>
My experience is with higher power and tunable dye argon lasers but the CO2 lab<br>
used to use these front surface mirrors.<br>
I just looked this up:<br>
<a href="http://www.eoc-inc.com/co2_laser_optics_mirrors.htm" target="_blank">http://www.eoc-inc.com/co2_laser_optics_mirrors.htm</a><br>
<a href="http://www.eoc-inc.com/lbp/technical.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.eoc-inc.com/lbp/technical.pdf</a><br>
and what was interesting was that many of these high power mirrors are just polished<br>
metal slabs with an IR coating (helps to prevent oxidation I would assume as well).<br>
If you can connect with a DIY astronomy group, you might luck out and find someone with<br>
an evaporator who coats mirrors and might be able to do an IR coating for you.<br><font color="#888888">
/Mike</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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