Dan said: > In typical everyday usage, lasers are not very efficient. Even in high tech > uses, such as inertia fusion, particle beams are much more efficient: about > 12% vs. about 1%, back when inertia fusion was big back in the '80s.
High pulse energy, high repetition rate diode-pumped solid state lasers now have an efficiency of around 10%. Rich _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
