How can one build a microwave laser?
How can one build a microwave laser?
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I was wondering how it would be possible to build a microwave laser, but avoiding the “Masser design”.
I’m looking more a conventional optical laser design, fitted for mw. It has to have a cavity functioning as both a focusing cavity and a protecting cavity..
I am planning to use the cheap magnetron from a microwave oven.
Does anyone have any links, ideas, designs or building instructions I could benefit from?
I’ve looked throughout the net through google, but I’m no expert when it comes to physics.
Thomas Hansen
I’m looking more a conventional optical laser design, fitted for mw. It has to have a cavity functioning as both a focusing cavity and a protecting cavity..
I am planning to use the cheap magnetron from a microwave oven.
Does anyone have any links, ideas, designs or building instructions I could benefit from?
I’ve looked throughout the net through google, but I’m no expert when it comes to physics.
Thomas Hansen
RE: How can one build a microwave laser?
RE: How can one build a microwave laser?
I know about horns, but how do i do it in a way like the optical system?
RE: How can one build a microwave laser?
There's a big difference between producing coherent radiated microwave energy and a coherent microwave "beam."
The former can be accomplished, the latter is not practical. The diffraction limit of a 6ft aperture at 2.4 GHz is about 10 degrees.
TTFN
RE: How can one build a microwave laser?
I've focused 2.5 ghz microwave oven energy into a 0.75" spot to heat a piece of chicken/cancerous tumor.
kch
RE: How can one build a microwave laser?
RE: How can one build a microwave laser?
RE: How can one build a microwave laser?
RE: How can one build a microwave laser?
What we did was;
Standard small Microwave oven with rf power feed on the side (not the top), removed its'door, cheated the interlocks, added a waveguide to coax adapter (as an antenna to capture the rf energy), used a coax cable inside the oven from the waveguide to coax adapter and connected it to the N-f feedthru on a new door (we had a shop make a new aluminum door to protect us and add the N-f feedthru), we added a water filled tupperware inside to place the coax. to waveguide transition onto (plus it minimizes arcing). A xoax cable connected to the N-f on the the door went to a notch antenna feed 12" diameter elliptical reflector antenna. We only used about 50-100 watts of output power to demonstrate cooking the chicken.
kch
RE: How can one build a microwave laser?
RE: How can one build a microwave laser?