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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: Asellith on July 11, 2009, 08:42:03 PM

Title: Line Laser Diodes
Post by: Asellith on July 11, 2009, 08:42:03 PM

I'm starting my research now but was wondering if anyone knows if Line Laser diode exist and can be purchased or if the laser levels just rotate a point really fast? If they do exists does anyone know a supplier for just the diode?

Thanks

Title: Re: Line Laser Diodes
Post by: Soeren on July 12, 2009, 06:54:30 AM

Hi,

They do exist, like almost any piece of power tool will confirm - gee, LASER lines seems to be everywhere these days, I even have a pair of scissors with a line.

It's not the diode that makes the line, it's an optic lens (a prism)  added to the collimator that gives either a line or a cross and they can be had on eBay:
http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=laser+line+module&_sacat=See-All-Categories (http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=laser+line+module&_sacat=See-All-Categories)