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No, nothing else bad can happen if you don't stare at it (or shine it at a police officer or a vehicle.) High power lasers in the green, UV and NIR band are used for laser surgery. They can do things like cauterize, break up skin pigments from age spots so your body absorbs them, reshape your...

Today they use a lot of NIR designators. The beam is pulsed at a very short, recognizeable PW that the missile, rocket or bomb is coded to guide to. This one uses ND:Yag at 1064nm: http://www.dsd.es.northropgrumman.com/DSD-Brochures/laser/LLDR.pdf

That laser can definitely go through two very important organs... your eyes. Even though it's rated (in China) as <5mW, as an inexpensive low power pointer it may be lacking an IR filter. It's possible there's 5mW of green light and another 15mW of IR coming out the end in a flashlight-like...

How in your opinion does it stack up against the LPM-1?

Has anyone played with a meter like this one? http://www.intl-lighttech.com/products/detectors/1400systems/spl024f http://www.intl-lighttech.com/products/meters/doc/IL1400manual.pdf Just curious. They're showing up on ebay.

Has anyone opened up a Phillips 20x internal DVD +-RW drive? Frys (Sacramento area anyway) has them for $49.99 and a $20 mail-in rebate. How easy to extract the diode? Open or closed can type? Worth it over the GB Sendiode? Bobdiode? Just asking questions no one probably yet has answers to.

My walmart was sold out of SHG's. Must be too close to Halloween.

Those AixiZ 10mW modules were designed for CW operation at 5.5mW - 8mW. That's why they're labeled 6mW. It is sort of false advertising since their design spec doesn't go beyond 8, but you can push them to 10mW just fine under normal pointing duty cycles.

Re: Concerns about 532nm Wicked lasershades + revi I thought the nes_shades were red enhancement goggles, designed to make red beams contrast better against backgrounds, and that their OD at 532nm was high enough to use them as green laser goggles (though they're not CE rated.) Forgive my...

The bar arrays do have some rudimentary collimation inside the works. Apparently they use at least enough lens to coax the power into a single beam that is near circular. That's the only way it would be useful coming out of the fiber. I have one of the 3 Watt fiber coupled diodes I have not yet...

Re: 100mW Red laser module + circuit  at KD!! Price shows $42.53 when I look it up. It also says output power 100mW MAX. That probably means power peaks briefly at 100mW, dropping down after 3 or 4 seconds to (who knows) <60mW.

I would buy a ViRay. Are you selling? ::)

Yea. NASA defines Violet as 400nm, Indigo as 445nm and Blue as 475nm. I guess VioRay didn't excite the marketing folks as much as Blu.

I think the consensus was all the NewWish lasers have IR filtering. That doesn't mean the filter is dense enough for lasers >50mW however. Best to assume they're leaking enough to be dangerous, which is only really a problem when burning something (intentionally causing specular reflections...

So Mike... what's the prognosis? How did the LM200's work? I still think 2xRCR123's should work for the BluRay GB diode even using the LM317T. Can anyone confirm this through observation? Thanks

Ahh... but in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the Terminator is destroyed by heat (molten metal.)

If you mean this video: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/497525/how_to_make_a_burning_laser_save_100s_of/ I believe many of us decided it was either a farce (he switched diodes), or that he disabled the current limit chip, meaning the laser would indeed light matches for a few minutes, then burn...

Re: FS: Various Goggles PM'd you his email address. I'll mark this thread SOLD. Thanks for everyone's responses.

Re: Various Goggles The ARG's and UVEX are probably sold now (Pseudo that would be you on the UVEX pair.) The seller gave me permission to share his email address with potential buyers only, so if you PM me interest in the other goggles I will pass his info along.

I know someone who needs some spending money right now. He has these goggles (1 pair each) available at $40 shipped (US) per pair. (He may need more for the UVEX goggles, I'd have to ask him.) If anyone is interested, PM me please. NoIR Laser Co. Laser Shield safety glasses model AL2#36 with...