PHOSFORCE LASER-TO-FLASHLIGHT CONVERTER
Wicked Lasers PhosForce Laser-To-Flashlight Converter, retail $79.95 (www.wickedlasers.com...)
Manufactured by Wicked Lasers (www.wickedlasers.com)
Last updated 12-22-13
This shows the PhosForce unit after I had inadvertently disassembled it; note the O-ring showing where it does not belong.
This photo shows the S3 Spyder Arctic G2 445nm Blue Laser (3) w/SmartSwitch™ v2.0 in its feral state.
This photo shows the S3 Spyder Arctic G2 445nm Blue Laser (3) w/SmartSwitch™ v2.0 with the PhosForce affixed to it.
The PhosForce Laser-To-Flashlight Converter is a nifty little gadget that screws onto the end of your S3 Spyder Arctic G2 445nm Blue Laser (any vintage) that turns your roaring monster into a meek little white flashlight.
It uses the same technology as is used in headlights on newer BMW and Mercedes Benz cars -- that is, a high-powered blue laser (your Arctic in this case) is sent through a diffractive optic (so that it doesn't simply burn a hole through the phosphor cap) and is directed toward a phosphor cap specifically designed to absorb the incoming blue laser radiation and convert it to yellow-green; when combined with what little blue laser radiation that escapes (***NOT COLLIMATED*** and does not represent an eye hazard!!!) and placed near the bottom of a mirror-smooth reflector, gives you get a very reasonable (actually, quite nice) approximation of neutral white {not bluish white but not warm white either}.
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To use your spiffy new (or corroded old
) PhosForce, unscrew & remove the current optic or lens from your Arctic, and screw the PhosForce on...yes, it's really that easy.
There are no batteries to fuss with, so I don't have to tell you which part to remove, kick under the kitchen sink crawling with rats and cockroaches with full bladders, and then tell you rather emphatically not to.
This is an accesory that screws onto your Arctic 445nm blue laser, not a flashlight. So I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a front porch in effort to try and expose the bare Metalmarineangemon - er - the bare Metaltrailmon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalsusanoomon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again! - now I'm just making {vulgar term for feces} up!!!), let my mother's big dog's ghost or my sister's kitty cats spring a leak (uranate) on it, hose it down with a gun, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analysis, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. Therefore, this section of the PhosForce's web page will seem a bit more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight.
The web page about the PhosForce on the Wicked Lasers website indicates that the PhosForce produces 500 lumens of light.
Horse puckey! Horse puckey!! HOOOOORRRSSSSSSE PUUCCKYYYYYYYYY!!! 
I have another evaluation of the PhosForce on Laser Pointer Forums at http://laserpointerforums.com...
Beam terminus photograph of the PhosForce on the test target at ~12".
Measures 41,200mcd (low) and 201,300mcd (high) on an Amprobe LM631A light meter.
New measurements, using the 2 Watt S3 Spyder Arctic G2 445nm Blue Laser w/SmartSwitch™ as the "power" source:
86,500mcd (low) and 933,000mcd (high)
Beam terminus photograph of the PhosForce on a wall at ~6 feet (~1.5 meters).
Beam terminus photograph of the PhosForce on a wall at ~12 feet (~3.0 meters) using my new 2 Watt S3 Spyder Arctic G2 445nm Blue Laser w/SmartSwitch™ as the "power" source (with the laser set at maximum output).
Photograph showing how the diffraction grating splits the laser beam into multiple spots before it reaches the phosphor cap so as to prevent it from burning through the phosphor cap.
My Novalux Laser 2000 Protera Model 488-15 Blue-Green Laser was used here to obtain the photograph because its wavelength lies at the longer end of the phosphor's acceptance band and therefore does not seriously overload the camera's imager.
Spectrographic analysis of the PhosForce (low).
Spectrographic analysis of the PhosForce (low); spectrometer's response narrowed to a range between 550nm and 570nm to pinpoint phosphor emission peak wavelength.
The raw spectrometer data (comma-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/42/phosforl.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the PhosForce (high).
Spectrographic analysis of the PhosForce (high); spectrometer's response narrowed to a range between 525nm and 535nm to pinpoint phosphor emission peak wavelength.
The raw spectrometer data (comma-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/42/phosforh.txt
Spectrographic analysis of the PhosForce when white light was shone into it from the "wrong" end to show the prescence of a dichroic filter.
The raw spectrometer data (comma-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/42/phosfilt.txt
USB2000 Spectrometer graciously donated by P.L.
Beam cross-sectional analysis.
That dark spot to the left of center and just above the red line that queered the test 
is a defect in the ProMetric's imager that cannot be compensated for.
Image made using the ProMetric System by Radiant Imaging.
TEST NOTES:
Test unit was sent by Jeice of Wicked Lasers on 05-06-13 (or "2013 06 May" if you prefer), and was received on 05-16-13 (or "2013 16 May" if you prefer).
Although the concept is brilliant, this is absolutely the worst product to ever have come from Wicked Lasers.
Knowing this, I'll still be keeping the PhosForce in my arsenal of products that get used frequently because the actual light quality is simply fantastic!
UPDATE: 05-18-13
From a person who's work in photonics I implicitly trust, comes the following (no changes to syntax or grammar were made):
"I think that 500 lumen figure is the amount of light leaving the phosphor cap when it is irradiated by the maximum amount of light that the
relevant laser series can produce. I think that is 2 watts.
If the laser beam is an 800 mW one, then only 200 lumens leaves the phosphor cap.
A majority of that 200 lumens probably goes rearwards, back to the laser. There are 2 fixes:
The lesser fix is painting white all forward surfaces of the laser and any non-phosphor rear surfaces of the converter. Use the brightest white
paint available at a paint store or home center. The rearward light will mostly bounce around, and some of it will go out through the phosphor cap.
The greater fix is to have a dichroic filter before the phosphor cap. The filter would pass blue laser light, and reflect the yellowish emission
of the phosphor cap."
In light of this, I've decided to increase the product's rating quite significantly.
UPDATE: 05-21-13
There does indeed appear to be a dichroic filter already in place, as the following photograph demonstrates:
This photograph was taken with the Arctic (440nm) laser beaming into the output-end of the PhosForce; instead of a blazing white light, a somewhat feeble blue light is transmitted -- feeble enough that it didn't overload the camera's CCD imager even when the camera was virtually head-on and an unfiltered laser beam would destroy it.
PROS:
Nifty "widget" that turns your dangerous laser into a harmless flashlight
Rather unique; uses relatively new technology
Durable metal case
Light it produces is a nice white color
Beam is smooth, with no rings, splotches, or other little evil little things (artifacts) in it
NEUTRAL:
CONS:
Ad copy is misleading -- unit does ***NOT*** produce 500 lumens with an older Arctic -- not no way, not no how!
Not efficient (as the web page indicates)
MANUFACTURER: Wicked Lasers
PRODUCT TYPE: Phosphor-based conversion to white flashlight for the Arctric laser
LAMP TYPE: N/A
No. OF LAMPS: N/A
BEAM TYPE: Medium spot w/soft corona
SWITCH TYPE: N/A
CASE MATERIAL: Hard-anodized aluminum
BEZEL: Metal; phosphor cap & refector protected by glass window
BATTERY: N/A
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: N/A
WATER- AND DIET MT. DEW-RESISTANT: Yes
SUBMERSIBLE: ¡¡¡PARA LOS MOTIVOS NO DE CRISTO!!! 
ACCESSORIES: Hard-sided storage box
SIZE: 41mm L (incl. threads) x 35mm Dia.
WEIGHT: 56.1g (1.980 oz.)
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: China
WARRANTY: 1 year (plus a 30-day money back guarantee)
PRODUCT RATING:
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