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The High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD) recently finished a round of successful tests at White Sands Missile Range. It lit up mortar rounds and unmanned aerials between November 18th and December 10th.
This capability provides Navy ships a method for Sailors to easily defeat small boat threats and aerial targets without using bullets.
Danger Laser.
This is a 200 milliWatt laser pointer for sale for $97 on this website. Why would anyone need a laser that powerful for a Power Point presentation? Most laser pointers from your local office supply store are 5 milliWatts, which is more than enough power for making your point.
Even meager 5 milliWatt laser pointers can blind you. A 200 milliWatt laser will do permanent damage if you point it into your eye for any length of time. That's why serious laser engineers wear goggles.
It's against the law to sell laser pointers to minors in New York City.
It shall be unlawful for any person to give, sell or offer to sell or cause any person to give, sell or offer to sell a laser pointer to any individual eighteen years of age or younger.
What's Wrong With This Picture?
The laser in this picture is a fake.
From Wikipedia:
A military scientist operates a laser in a test environment. The United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate conducts research on a variety of solid-state and chemical lasers.
Most chemical and solid state lasers used in military research are not that color. In fact, most of them are completely invisible. Yep. The mega-powerful Chemical Oxygen Iodine Laser (COIL) is 1.315 microns, and the solid-state Nd:YAG (Neodymium Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) laser is 1.064 microns. Humans can only see light between 0.390 to 0.700 microns.
The laser in this photo looks like a standard turquoise night club laser, otherwise known as cyan, which is made by mixing equal parts blue and green laser light. Not something you'll be able to blow anything up with. Except maybe the dance floor.
Laser Weapons Scientists Need Mugs, Too
"The Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) fosters research and development in directed energy (DE), including high energy laser (HEL) and high power microwave (HPM) technologies, for national defense and civilian applications through professional communication and education. ”
This is a laser diode.
Laser diodes produce coherent light. This little guy, which is about the size of a silver dollar, produces 10 Watts of it. It will burn you for sure.
This is a pretty laser.
But it's weak. The laser power level is less than 1 milliWatt. That's 5 times less potent than most laser pointers.
Every lightbulb is tens of thousands of times more powerful than this flimsy little laser. But the incoherent army of photons emitted by a 50 Watt incandescent filmanet will not blind you. Yes, this pretty laser is weak. But its army of photons is organized. It will march straight into your eye and blind you with its coherent redness.
Image: Nayu Kim / Flickr / Creative Commons License
This is not a BBQ station. It's a laser weapon.
This powerful German laser weapon is designed to shoot things out of the sky.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the system is its ability to lock on to small moving targets. In order to simulate a mortar round, testers used a steel ball of just over three inches in diameter. The HEL was able to detect the incoming projectile, before using two levels of tracking — a rough positioning provided by the mechanical turret and a more accurate fine-tuning by the laser itself — to intercept the target..
Full Article via the Verge
The Laser Plane's Last Ride
The Airborne Laser blasted a missile right out of the sky in February 2010. Then it promptly retired.
This is a harmless lightbulb.
Lightbulbs are not lasers. They produce incoherent light. The warm glow emitted by a bright orange filament is energetic, certainly. But it can never be weaponized. Unlike lasers.