To: Pontiac
The cost of replacing one in your daily driver is a different matter. On your 'daily driver', it had better last the life of the engine. Replacement is almost guaranteed to be a giant pain in the neck. Industrial (artificial) sapphire and spinel are extremely durable materials, and very transmissive through the realm of reasonable LASER wavelengths:
70 posted on
02/20/2015 8:05:43 AM PST by
NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain
Industrial (artificial) sapphire and spinel are extremely durable materials, and very transmissive through the realm of reasonable LASER wavelengths: Good info thanks.
But of course that transmissive issue may also be sticky.
Typically combustion chambers end up being coated with combustion residue. How will that reduce laser light transmission?
85 posted on
02/20/2015 8:17:06 AM PST by
Pontiac
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