Can you make a white laser?

No one has been able to create a laser that beams white light. Researchers at Arizona State University have solved the puzzle. They have proven that semiconductor lasers are capable of emitting over the full visible color spectrum, which is necessary to produce a white laser.
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Why are white lasers not made?

A laser produces monochromatic light. White light contains at least three colors (red, green, blue), so you would need 3 laser beams to produce something white (or shift between the 3 colors fast enough). Lasers are not LEDs (the latter can be white).
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What is laser white?

LASER WHITE is applied to remove any kind of scar or discoloration like acne spots, sun tans, age spots, liver marks, sun freckles or even a tattoo.
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Are there black lasers?

Is it even possible to produce these colors in a laser diode? Of course it's impossible, black is the absence of light (the fact UV or others radiations are non-visible, don't make them a "black beam").
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What color is the most powerful laser?

As a general rule, green lasers are 532nm are 5-7X brighter than any other laser color, at the same power. Whether blue, red, purple/violet, or a light color like yellow, green is the best at strength for visibility.
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Are laser pens illegal?

Whilst owning a laser pen is not illegal if a person had one in the street and was using it (or intending to use it) to shine in people's eyes, at cars or aircraft etc. then they would be committing an offence and, in the case of cars and aircraft, a particularly serious offence.
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How far can a 1000mw green laser go?

So we return to the question: “how far can I see my laser beam for?” As mentioned there will be many different factors to consider, but here is a basic guideline. 200mW green lasers will be visible for more than 10 miles and blue lasers 1,000mW or more will also be visible for 10 miles or more on a clear line of sight.
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Can you turn light into a laser?

Furthermore, you can't create a laser beam by cleverly focusing regular light, no matter how hard you try. You create a laser beam using stimulated emission. Stimulated emission is what causes the light in a laser beam to be coherent, and coherence is what makes a laser beam so much more useful than regular light.
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What are purple lasers used for?

Violet, the newest laser pointer color, has a stunning blue-purple glow at 405nm and is used in spectroscopy, fluorescence, microscopy, and more!
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How do blue lasers work?

The blue laser is a device that emits a light beam in the wavelength range between 400 nm and 500 nm, visible as violet or blue to human eye. The light beam produced is temporally coherent and can be well-collimated, which allows it to have numerous applications in industry and science.
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What color lasers are there?

The most common laser pointers are red (630 nm-670 nm), green (520 nm and 532 nm) and violet (405 nm and 445 nm). Our eyes are most sensitive to green light. Thus a green laser will appear brighter than a red or violet laser, even though the power output is the same.
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Why are lasers only red or green?

A: The difference between a red laser and a green laser light is that the red laser light has a longer wavelength (about 650 nanometers) than does the green (about 532 nanometers). The mechanism behind making them is also different. Red lasers use a diode, optics, and some electronics.
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What is white light made from?

White light is a combination of all colors in the color spectrum. It has all the colors of the rainbow. Combining primary colors of light like red, blue, and green creates secondary colors: yellow, cyan, and magenta. All other colors can be broken down into different combinations of the three primary colors.
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Can laser reach moon?

The typical red laser pointer is about 5 milliwatts, and a good one has a tight enough beam to actually hit the Moon—though it'd be spread out over a large fraction of the surface when it got there. The atmosphere would distort the beam a bit, and absorb some of it, but most of the light would make it.
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How far can the 303 laser go?

Long Range - Even in broad daylight, you'll be able to shine your Laser 303 at a point a hundred yards away, but nighttime is when Laser 303 really shines. When it's dark, you'll be able to point at targets almost a mile away!
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Is pointing a laser in the sky illegal?

While pointing a laser at a helicopter or plane may seem harmless, the opposite is true. It's dangerous—both to those in the air and on the ground—and it's a federal crime.
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Is Shining lasers illegal?

Regardless of the user's age, it's illegal to point, shine or focus a laser pointer at someone "in a manner that can reasonably be expected to cause harassment, annoyance or fear of injury to such other person."
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Is green laser illegal?

It's not yet illegal to fly in the US with a 5mW laser pointer in your carry-on luggage, but and several countries now outlaw them all together, a note for traveling astronomers.
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What laser can start a fire?

Briday Class 4 laser pointers are the perfect choices to used as a burning tool. In contrast to green or red laser pointers, blue laser beam is dim but more powerful to able get stuffs burned.
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How powerful of a laser can you own?

In the U.S., it is legal under federal law to own a laser of any power. But often people talk about “illegal laser pointers”. This is somewhat confusing shorthand meaning that the manufacturer or seller illegally called a laser above 5 milliwatts a “pointer”, or illegally promoted it for pointing purposes.
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