SUPER BRIGHT BLUE VIOLET LASER


Super Bright Blue VIOLET Laser, retail $3.00
Manufactured by: (Unknown)
Last updated 09-03-21





(In reference to the padded envelope that a postal carrier dropped into my hands on the early-afternoon of 09-02-21:
{sung like the Foreigner song "Feels Like the First Time"}


The Super Bright Blue VIOLET Laser (hereinafter, probably just called a violet diode laser) is a violet-emitting, directly-injected laser. That is, it produces violet laser radiation directly, without the need for messy, fragile nonlinear crystals like those 532nm green laser pointers and the amberish-yellow and 473nm blue ones as well. It uses two AAA cells -- the same power source used in most other "pen-style" laser pointers and portable lasers.

It is labelled to have an output of 5mW of laser radiation at 405nm; it has a spectrographcally measured wavelength of 405.720nm and a measured power output of 27mW.

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


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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 neutralise the laser.



To change the batteries in this violet 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 slverfish with full bladders will think it's something to eat, find it unpalatable, uranates all over it, and skitters away...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 (+) positive 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 silverfish that really had to piddle now?

Unable to mesasure current usage due to how the laser was constructed.



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 (go poddy) 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 nocked out of whack, you'll no longer get your yellow, green, or blue laser beam.
Though you still do not want to intentionally drop your violet-emitting laser because it's a precision optical instrument.

Does this evaluation look an awful lot like the one I made for this laser?
Thought you'd say so.
That's because they're functionally, electrically, and physically very similar, so I was able to use its web page as a template for this one.



Beam photograph of this laser on a wall at ~12".
Beam image bloomed ***SIGNIFICANTLY***.
I deliberately photographed this in somewhat low daylight to help reduce image blooming!!!
However as you can plainly see, considerable image blooming did occur!!!

That white & blue color does not really exist; the spot appears to be a very deep royal purple to the eye.
Digital cameras have a tough time at these wavelengths.

And yes, I know that the colors purple and violet are two different critters, but the phrase "royal violet" would not make very much sense; however, most everybody knows what "royal purple" looks like.
Purple is a mixture of red & blue; violet is a spectral color, encompassing wavelengths of ~390nm to ~420nm.



Beam photograph on a wall at ~10'.
Again, that white & blue color does not really exist.

Power output measures
27mW on a LaserBee AX laser power meter.

Spectrographic analysis
Spectrographic analysis of the Blu-ray laser diode in this product.
Wavelength appears to be ~405nm, which is within specification for the type of laser diode used in this laser.


Spectrographic analysis
Same as above; but spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 400nm and 410nm.
This shows that the wavelength is 405.720nm -- right about where I eyeballed it prior to spectroscopy.

The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at br54.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 Wish.com on 08-14-21 and as received on the early-afternoon of 09-02-21.

I had actually ordered a 450nm BLUE laser, but this is what I received.
However, for $3, I'm not going to raise a stink about it.

I have decided to rate this little laser three stars.
The only real reasons that it did not receive five stars is because the claimed power output and the measured power output vary so greatly (claimed at <5mW, measured at 27mW) -- a rather severe no-no and because it is mislabelled which is also another no-no -- actually that's a
HELL NO!!!





UPDATE 00-00-00:



PROS:
Color is very radiant & unusual for a handheld laser
Uses inexpensive and readily available batteries
Color is very radiant an unu...o wait, I said that already!!!
Well collimated -- beam stays narrow for a good distance (divergnce is low)


CONS:
Just the usual suspects for laser modules/pointers - nothing that affects rating...actually, there is one little thing: it is labelled as a 5mW laser, but outputs a measured 27mW of laser radiation.
That's what nocked most of the stars off.


    MANUFACTURER: Unknown
    PRODUCT TYPE: Violet-emitting diode laser
    LAMP TYPE: Sony Blu-ray 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 a hosel for them in its end
    BATTERY: 2x AAA cells
    CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unable to measure
    WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Light splatter-resistant at maximum
    SUBMERSIBLE: For Christ sakes NO!!!
    ACCESSORIES: None
    SIZE: 153.30mm L x 14.10mm Dia. (not incl. button or pocket clip)
    WEIGHT: 36.60g (1.29oz) incl. batteries; 13.80g (0.48oz.) empty
    COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
    WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated

    PRODUCT RATING:

    Star Rating





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