Pixel Cut Blue Laser Garnet 34ct "Minecraft Diamond" faceting and good dispersion

and good dispersion

charged up with photons from the sides and emit a beam of coherent light out of the end--in fact the very first laser was built with a ruby

These are violet Nd laser garnets (Nd:YAG) cut into various calibrated shapes: rounds

though they aren't very visible in the hand (the macro lens is very unforgiving)

resulting in hollow needles and carbon clusters which ruined them for semiconductor usage but left enough clean zones (after extensive trimming) to facet brilliant gems

Pixel Cut Blue Laser Garnet 34ct "Minecraft Diamond" faceting and good dispersionThis is a custom pixel cut blue laser garnet (Ytterbium YAG) that I cut myself to resemble a real life Minecraft diamond! The stone weighs in at a 34 carats. I cut this stone back in December, but it got misplaced before we could get the final footage of the cut stone. I recently found it but in the mean time I lost all the footage from cutting it, so it never got its own video. I'll have to do another Minecraft diamond but for now this one is