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Now I see a lot of people always talking about the IR in things..
What about the Ultraviolet?
(please feel free to correct me in anyway shape or form)
For example does a 50mW 405nm laser put out true violet with an undertone of say.. 15 mW of ultraviolet and would that be akin to perhaps a 50mW green laser putting out 15mW of infra-red... with the same damaging factors.
IMO a 20mW 405 is bearable to look at, at a distance, for a short amount of time than a 20mW green at the same distance. But as we all know "Brighter doesn't perhaps mean stronger" and this is my point.. but seeing as I've never seen a 405 higher than 50 in real life I can't differentiate them.
Is there such thing as an ultraviolet filter.. seeing as ultraviolet contains the word "violet" and the laser beam colour is violet so to speak then perhaps the whole beam is ultraviolet... and the UV filter would just block out the whole beam?
With a DPSS 405 this would obviously be.. well.. obvious.
But then isn't ultraviolet also near the invisible part of the UV spectrum also... and considering you have the scale
I've seriously confused myself there... please helppppppppppppppp.
What about the Ultraviolet?
(please feel free to correct me in anyway shape or form)
For example does a 50mW 405nm laser put out true violet with an undertone of say.. 15 mW of ultraviolet and would that be akin to perhaps a 50mW green laser putting out 15mW of infra-red... with the same damaging factors.
IMO a 20mW 405 is bearable to look at, at a distance, for a short amount of time than a 20mW green at the same distance. But as we all know "Brighter doesn't perhaps mean stronger" and this is my point.. but seeing as I've never seen a 405 higher than 50 in real life I can't differentiate them.
Is there such thing as an ultraviolet filter.. seeing as ultraviolet contains the word "violet" and the laser beam colour is violet so to speak then perhaps the whole beam is ultraviolet... and the UV filter would just block out the whole beam?
With a DPSS 405 this would obviously be.. well.. obvious.
But then isn't ultraviolet also near the invisible part of the UV spectrum also... and considering you have the scale
I've seriously confused myself there... please helppppppppppppppp.