1 W Green laser diffraction

LASERbigGreenDriveGratingLightsOffNow this made me go “WOW”.  A 1 W green laser diffraction pattern (or hologram). It looks like it’s photoshopped on. It isn’t.
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Exposures are 2.5 secs. In complete darkness, it is quite disorienting.
Perhaps 2000 dots all within the legal limit of 5 mW and most less than 1 mW.

1 W green laser diffraction pattern - MichaelMichael with eyes firmly closed and staying absolutely still for the 2.5 second exposure. Each spot in that area is much less than 1 mW and dot size has expanded to about 10 mm. This reduces the effective power by a factor of at least 4 for a maximum 5 mm pupil diameter. So perhaps 0.1 – 0.2 mW and well within the range of blink safety.

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External links

Diffraction – Wikipedia

Photo Date: March 26, 2014

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