A DIY Pockels cell!

Episode 67 #laser #optics #highvoltage Lets build a Pockels cell from a home-grown Potassium Di-Hydrogen Phosphate Crystal! An excellent resource for optical engineering: https://www.youtube.com/user/huygensoptics If you found this content useful, and would like to support this Channel, please consider supporting this work on Patreon: https://patreon.com/leslaboratory Or donate directly: https://paypal.me/leslaboratory Alternatively, please share this content on your social media platforms, it really helps me out! 0:00 Intro 00:21 The Pockels effect 01:14 Commercial Pockels Cells 01:20 Scientific American The Amateur Scientist 02:38 Crystal Growing 02:43 Cutting crystals 03:24 A home made diamond wire cutting machine! 04:51 Cutting KDP crystals 06:12 Grinding and Polishing 07:31 Index matching 08:50 Polishing 09:36 The effect of polarization birefringence: Isogyre, Isochrome, melatope 10:56 Making a Pockels cell 12:08 Pockels Cell demonstration 13:21 Demo with a Laser! 14:29 Future work 14:42 Outro