I've recently gotten into cheap lower-powered lasers, and I'm interested in the limits of human vision. To that end, I just bought a 5 mW 980 nm laser off the Internet. As I understand it, looking directly into lasers of that power for a time on the order of a few seconds should be fairly safe. If I do this with the laser I just bought, what do you think will happen?
Possibilities:
-I see a red light when I shine it into my eye.
-980 nm is totally invisible, and I see nothing.
-I fry my eye, due to some difference between the 650 nm lasers that are virtually harmless and 980 nm light at the same intensity
Possibilities:
-I see a red light when I shine it into my eye.
-980 nm is totally invisible, and I see nothing.
-I fry my eye, due to some difference between the 650 nm lasers that are virtually harmless and 980 nm light at the same intensity