Laser Products I Hate
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Laser Products I Hate
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#2Interesting that he compares them to firearms, and all that entails. With power levels increasing, we may see a viable laser rifle soon, and with it, a need for a new regulatory structure (or adoption and expansion of an existing one, atf, etc.) They seem to have many of the same public safety aspects, but will someone popularize a legitimate 'Sporting Use' for these devices before they are sold as 'Death Rays to Blind Everyone and Set the World on Fire', And deemed unsutable for mere mortals to own? I hope so. I guess based on this article, you could sell a kit without much liability.
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#3Interesting that he compares them to firearms, and all that entails. With power levels increasing, we may see a viable laser rifle soon, and with it, a need for a new regulatory structure (or adoption and expansion of an existing one, atf, etc.) They seem to have many of the same public safety aspects, but will someone popularize a legitimate 'Sporting Use' for these devices before they are sold as 'Death Rays to Bli…
What about 3D printed lasers?
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#6Interesting that he compares them to firearms, and all that entails. With power levels increasing, we may see a viable laser rifle soon, and with it, a need for a new regulatory structure (or adoption and expansion of an existing one, atf, etc.) They seem to have many of the same public safety aspects, but will someone popularize a legitimate 'Sporting Use' for these devices before they are sold as 'Death Rays to Bli…
I wonder how practical a portable laser gun would be, as I'm imagining a laser diode array would need to be amazingly powerful (I'm assuming much greater than the 40W version in the video?) and they'd require a very beefy power source.
It seems diode lasers are up to 60% efficient?
It looks like you can get extremely high power pulsed laser arrays though.
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#7Interesting that he compares them to firearms, and all that entails. With power levels increasing, we may see a viable laser rifle soon, and with it, a need for a new regulatory structure (or adoption and expansion of an existing one, atf, etc.) They seem to have many of the same public safety aspects, but will someone popularize a legitimate 'Sporting Use' for these devices before they are sold as 'Death Rays to Bli…
I wonder how practical a portable laser gun would be, as I'm imagining a laser diode array would need to be amazingly powerful (I'm assuming much greater than the 40W version in the video?) and they'd require a very beefy power source. It seems diode lasers are up to 60% efficient? It looks like you can get extremely high power pulsed laser arrays though.
It's not so much the power as the total energy delivered that matters. So, in that sense, it will depend on the batteries (or whatever storage mechanism they use) as much as the lasers themselves.
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#8I don't know, looks like an advertisement to me. Fun, dangerous, barely legal -- what's not to like?
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#9On that note, does anyone have good resources on building laser powered products? I figured it would make sense to start by reading an optics textbook. [1]
Something like Building Electro-Optical Systems by Hobbs. First problem is that I wouldn't even know which ones good.
The next problem I see and which the article touches on is that the wrong setting might cause irreparable tissue damage. Which by extension means that making sure that the variance is power must have a bunch of failsafe circuitry more so than the average meditation eeg startup.
I believe there are reliability test scenarios for electrical equipment in space, so i assume there's similar things for this use case. Would anyone be able to point in the right direction?
[1]: http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470402296...
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#10Interesting that he compares them to firearms, and all that entails. With power levels increasing, we may see a viable laser rifle soon, and with it, a need for a new regulatory structure (or adoption and expansion of an existing one, atf, etc.) They seem to have many of the same public safety aspects, but will someone popularize a legitimate 'Sporting Use' for these devices before they are sold as 'Death Rays to Bli…
I don't think so. Lasers are ineffective as lethal weapons (they are very effective as blinding weapons, which is probably worse and inhumane).