From: tmiller11147@verizon.net   
      
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   > Hi All,  We've are using these 0.7ND kodak wratten  #96 ND filters.   
   > We can only get them from Tiffen.   
   > (so maybe the name should be Tiffen Kodak Wratten...)   
   > I went to reorder and found that the ~1.5" x 1.5" pieces we use in lots of   
   > 8 are going to be ~$10 each.   
   > I'm contemplating a letter to tiffen, without much hope.   
   > So I'd really like another solution.   
   > These are used in student labs to attenuate a diode laser.   
   > (I think there is ~3-5mW (typical) but I'd have to measure.)   
   > There's a "real" glass 1.0 ND filter, to suck up most of the laser power.   
   > And then a holder for the above pieces of plastic put in 35mm slide   
   > projector mounts.  At 780 nm they are really 0.5ND filters, which seems   
   > like a nice number.   
   > Two gives you about a factor of ten.   
   > (Sorry for the long winded wind up.)   
   >   
   > Is there some other absorptive piece of something I could use?   
   > Not too expensive and reproducible.   
   > Most plastics used in lighting become transparent beyond 700nm or so.   
   > Yeah I've thought about reflective things.   
   > It seems too dangerous for a student lab.   
   > (The reflective filter can spray most of the laser power around the lab.)   
   > But if you have a reflective thing for ~$1 per square inch ~0.5ND...   
   >   
   > George H.   
   >   
      
   You might browse around in a welding supply store or on the net. They have   
   graded filters for different weld processes on up to ND12 or more.   
      
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