Affordable semiconductor lasers have come a long way in recent years
both in output and efficiency.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUcWqgbn7fA
Soon -- this product will be banned or severely restricted, since any
teenager can buy one with dad's MasterCard. Neighborhood cats beware!
In may ways, these lasers are as dangerous than a loaded gun now; and in
a few years ??? especially since the rate of increase per unit of cost
seems to be exceeding Moore's law.
Letts used a 30 milliwatt laser (.03 watts). This one is 1.7 watts,
almost 60 times more powerful.
Of course, there is no indication that the Letts-Creavens effect can be
"super-sized" (the All-American solution for every problem <g>).
However, wouldn't you love to be the first to try this?
If the effect were somehow to be the same ratio at higher power -- i.e.
a gain of thirty times the laser input power, then the cell should be
outputting 50 watts. Whoa.
Jones
