Homemade CO2 Laser Tube

As this video seems to be gaining traction, I feel I need to address a few things: <br>1) I didn't actually achieve an output here, I thought the camera picked up on some IR that I couldn't see, but on further research, there is no dang camera in this world (excluding IR cameras) that would pick up the 10.6 um that this tube should be producing. <br>2) I called what was happening here &quot;lasing&quot;, it is not. What I achieved here was an electrical discharge, which is a big step in the right direction, but certainly not &quot;lasing&quot;. (yet!) <br>I'm new to all of this and still learning! Just sharing my progress as I make it, and as with any learning process, there will be mistakes. I'm not trying to spread misinformation here! <br> <br>I'll go over all of this and more in the next video! Thanks for watching! <br> <br>Just trying to make my way into the future man <br> <br>Excellent resource for homemade co2 lasers: <br>https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasercc2.htm <br> <br>outro music is by a friend of mine, check him out!: <br>https://soundcloud.com/badamericansofficial <br> <br>intro music: <br>bensound.com