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What kind of power and wavelength do I need to use these?

Next month. I could send you an empty plastic Slavich container to fill with 4x5s.?!!

Ok, so where it the "DCG Plates" button on your web page?

Now talk him into getting a paypal account so we can pay him!!

"What kind of power and wavelength do I need to use these?"
DCG has a maximum sensitivity at around 400 or so. It's still pretty sensitive at 532 (these 315 diodes?). I'll put up a sensitivity curve on the site, however these are rough figures:
Lambda(nm) ...............ExposuremJ/sq cm)
488....................................50
514....................................75
532....................................120

There is no "sensitivity" as such for DCG because it's a continuous process of cross linking as opposed to the particulate process in Silver where a specific energy is required to create a speck (I'll also put up a Silver Halide paper to explain these terms). In DCG, the more energy you give it the more it cross links and the harder the Bragg planes and the overall emulsion becomes. The harder the overall emulsion becomes, the more resistant it becomes to swelling and subsequent dehydrating and so the more blue shifted and narrow band it becomes. In other words, the exposure depends a lot on what you want, within certain limits. Hit it with about 20 mJ/sq cm at 488 and you get a sort of orange/yellow, hit it with 50 mJ/sq cm and you'll get green (that's how your skull was made, by the way).

"Next month. I could send you an empty plastic Slavich container..."
This would be great. One problem with DCG is its softness. Unlike Silver, you can't have anything touch the emulsion surface because it scratches so easily.

contact me. ive use his plates with dpss green....

Those Slavich boxes are awfully bulky and don't seem to protect plates very well against breakage during shipping. Would a layer of Saran wrap (or similar peelable film) over the gelatin work to protect it enough to allow use of thin cardboard (or foam sheet) spacers between plates resulting a a more compact package?

DCG emulsion is pretty soft. Do you remember the packaging days of Agfa 8 x 10's. They had red edge spacers on the two sides of each plate. It kept the plates about 1/4 inch apart and cushioned. The stack was then wrapped in a light tight wrapper then in a cardboard box.

http://4c-s.org/v-web/gallery/album09/monaliza2
this is done with dpss green laser 100mw, exposer 5 mins