Quanta Ray PRO350 with frequency doubling, emitting a 532 nm beam – Sales brochure image ... this should make it clear that laser eye injury can happen to anyone, and it only takes a second ...

Try to fathom the power of 1 million nuclear power plants. Now, imagine there is a way to pack the equivalent of that into ...

Lasers (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation), which produce an intense and highly directional beam of light ... to be an acute hazard to the skin and eyes from direct radiation.

Sure, a laser’s focused beam is usually pointed in the right direction ... and picking up a few extra pairs of safety glasses. Eye-damage in a fraction of a second is no joke, so let’s make ...

It met all the criteria for a shadow because it was visible to the naked eye, followed the contours of the surface it fell on and followed the position and shape of the laser beam, which acted as ...

An art installation featuring 30 laser beams in primary colors will shine from the top of the Space Needle Friday night.

In the case of laser marking, for example, a changing or non-optimum beam profile may mean that one letter is deeper than the next, and in refractive eye surgery it may have more serious consequences.