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OOH! What kind?! I'ms probably guessing the (then) ubiquitous HeNe...probably mostly the standard red...did you ever run across any HeNe oddities? Different TEM? Different wavelength?
Possibly Argon, HeCd, Krypton, Dyes? Other solid state?
Were semiconductor diode lasers being used for anything back then other than research, and as Theodore Maiman's tricked out typewriter delete mechanism?
I'm interested to see just how far back DPSS lasers date
...I'm not sure what an optics department would have needed a Co2 (since that is deep IR nearing microwave...in a relative sense... and it shatters glass) laser but that is a guess....Any metal vapor lasers?
How about having bought a blu Ray disc reader as surplus off ebay--like that KES400A for a PS3? You can make a blue/violet laser pointer out of it.
4 a senior project, I built one sorta like as per the SciAm article on it.EDIT: a N2 laser