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"5mW" 405nm BLUE-EMITTING LASER PEN 5mW 450nm

Blue-Emitting Laser Pen 5mW 445nm 450nm, retail $2.55
Manufactured by: (Unknown)
Last updated 04-07-20

(In reference to the padded envelope I received from an Ebay seller on the afternoon of 03-19-19):
{sung like the Foreigner song "Feels Like the First Time"}

The Blue-Emitting Laser Pen 5mW 445nm 450nm is a blue-emitting, directly-injected laser. That is, it produces blue laser radiation directly, without the need for messy, fragile nonlinear crystals like those green laser pointers and the amberish-yellow and light blue ones as well. It uses two AAA cells -- the same power source used in most other "pen-style" laser pointers and laser modules.

It is advertised to output 5mW of laser radiation at ~450nm; it has a spectrographcally measured wavelength of 449.060nm with a measured output of 10mW.

It comes in a handsome brass body with a black finish and chrome colored bezel, tailcap, and pocket clip.

SIZE

To get the laser to turn on, first be certain that there are a pair of AAA cells installed. If there isn't, then install them (see directly below), and THEN you can go irradiate something.

Aim the laser well-away from your face first.

Press & hold down the button on the barrel for as long as you want or need the laser spot, and release pressure on the button to turn the laser back off.

To change the batteries in this blue laser , unscrew the laser near the center, gently place the upper portion onto the floor in front of the stairs leading to the basement, and kick it down those stairs so that the piss ants with full bladders will think it's something to eat, find it unpalatable, drag it to the queen, who just sniffs at it, uranates all over it, and instructs the worker ants to do the same...O WAIT!!! THAT'S THE GOOD PART!!! So just set it aside instead.

Tip the two used AAA cells out of the barrel and into your hand, and dispose of, recycle, or recharge them as you see fit.

Insert two new AAA cells into the barrel, button-end (+)positve first. This is the opposite of how batteries are installed in most flashlights, so please pay attention to polarity here.

Screw the front portion of the tube back on, and be done with it.
Aren't you glad that you didn't kick that front piece into the basement with all of those hungry ants that really had to piddle now?

Current usage measures 110.80mA.

This is a self-contained laser , and not a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused - so I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against a concrete porch, let my mother's big dog's ghost or my sister's kitty cats piddle (uranate) on it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a small or medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again

- candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.

This is a directly-injected laser though, who's active components are the inverter circuit, the laser diode, and the collimating lens. So it should withstand accidents better than a DPSS (diode pumped solid state) laser - the type of laser assembly found in yellow (593.5nm), green (532nm) and blue (473nm) laser pointers. These lasers have several additional components (crystals, filters, etc.) in the optical train, and you can knock them out of alignment by doing little more than looking at them the wrong way. And if any of these components are knocked out of whack, you'll no longer get your yellow, green, or light blue laser beam.

Though you still do not want to intentionally drop your blue-emitting laser because it's a precision optical instrument.

Beam photograph of this laser on a wall at ~12".

Beam photograph on a wall at ~10'.

Power output measures 15mW on a LaserBee AX laser power meter.

Spectrographic analysis of the laser diode in this product.
Wavelength appears to be ~450nm, which is within specification for the type of laser diode used in this laser.

Spectrographic analysis of this laser; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 442nm and 452nm to pinpoint wavelength, which is 448.710nm.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at 450-20.txt

USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.

A beam cross-sectional analysis would normally appear here, but the ProMetric System
that I use for that test was destroyed by lightning in mid-July 2013.

TEST NOTES:
Test unit was purchased on Ebay on 03-05-19 (or "05 Mar. 2019" if you prefer), and was received on the afternoon of 03-19-19.

I have decided to rate this wonderful little laser four stars!!!

The only real reasons that it did not receive five stars is because the claimed power output and the measured power output vary (claimed at <5mW,measured at 10mW) -- a rather severe no-no!!!

UPDATE 00-00-00:

PROS:
Color is very radiant & unusual for a handheld laser
Uses inexpensive and readily available batteries
The price is right!
Color is very radiant an unu...o wait, I said that already!!!

CONS:
Just the usual suspects for laser modules/pointers - nothing that affects rating.

MANUFACTURER: Unknown
PRODUCT TYPE: Blue-emitting diode laser
LAMP TYPE: Unknown-type blue-emitting laser diode
No. OF LAMPS: 1
BEAM TYPE: Very narrow spot
SWITCH TYPE: Momentary on/off button on barrel
CASE MATERIAL: Brass
BEZEL: Metal; laser & lens recessed into its end
BATTERY: 2x AAA cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: 110.80mA
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Light splatter-resistant at maximum
SUBMERSIBLE: For Christ sakes NO!!!
ACCESSORIES: None
WEIGHT: 69g (2.47oz) incl. batteries; 21g (0.74oz.) empty COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

PRODUCT RATING:

Blue-Emitting Laser Pen 5mW 445nm 450nm *

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