[rescue] OT - Optics / Laser rescue bits?

[Robert Darlington]

Those lasers are no joke.  Lasers are definitely not toys.  I have a
Coherent DPSS 532 laser that spits out 200mW of power, mostly at 532nm.
This is plenty to burn holes in plastic (slowly).  Reflections off of shiny
things will instantly blind you.  I bought a pair of laser goggles for about
$25 which block almost all of that 532nm radiation but don't do anything for
the 1064nm frequency content.  This is an incredibly dangerous situation for
people that don't know how they work and think it's fine to stare at the
little dim dot on the wall.   Dangerous, but I still love em.

-Bob

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Ethan O'Toole <ethan at 757tech.net> wrote:

>  I have no background in lasers or optics, but several laser articles on
>> various tech sites have lead me to wickedlasers.com.
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> I turned wickedlasers into the CDRH.
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> They said they already had issued things to them.
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