What are blue lasers good for?

Class IV lasers are the best for burning ability as they are over 500mW, ideal for lighting matches, popping balloons, and more. Blue lasers are typically higher in power and are therefore better for burning use. Laser pointers that can focus the beam offer more beam control and can aid in burning ability.
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What is the purpose of a blue laser?

Blue lasers are used in Blu-ray, which is used as a storage standard in DVD and related applications. Blue lasers also have a wide scope of application in printing, as they allow for a higher resolution compared to the red lasers used in laser printers.
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Is a blue laser better than a green laser?

The green has a visual hazard distance of 25.5 NM, while the exact same laser in blue has a visual hazard distance of only 4.8 NM. The green laser's visual hazard distance is 5.3 times the blue laser's.
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What can a blue laser cut?

Blue lasers can effectively process a wide range of materials, such as Titanium, Copper, or Gold, as well as other materials like wood or leather.
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What is the advantage of a blue laser sight?

The blue laser option also provides a very bright aiming point in both daylight and lowlight conditions, but is designed to extend battery life as much as 4x-5x longer than green lasers. In addition, blue lasers are not susceptible to cold weather like green lasers.
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What color laser is best for shooting?

If you are not particularly concerned with laser visibility in the daylight and looking to save some money, a red laser site would be a good choice. If you are interested in using your laser sight in all lighting conditions, you should choose a green laser.
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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 powerful are Blu-ray lasers?

This week, Sony launched the first commercial 400mW blue–violet laser diode for Blu-ray. The higher-power lasers can perform triple or even quadruple-layer recording at 8X-12X speeds, storing up to 128GB on a single disc.
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Can a laser crack glass?

If a laser's light intensity is so high that it's capable of ionizing the air, this highly-focused beam can cause glass to crack by superheating the air around it. This mimics the appearance and some of the effects of marked glass.
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What color laser is most powerful?

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 blue lasers safe?

Blue lasers are also more dangerous than red and green ones because blue is more easily absorbed by pigments in the retina and thus more damaging to it. Lasers burned holes in the maculas of four patients in the study. The macula is the highly light-sensitive center of the retina.
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How far can a blue laser pointer 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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Why are blue lasers better than red?

Blue Light Laser

Blue light lasers have a shorter wavelength compared to red lasers, allowing for stronger focus or resolution in very fine structures in imaging applications.
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What are yellow lasers used for?

The Yellow Laser is the ideal wavelength for Micropulse sub-thresholds laser treatment for diabetic macula edema, CSCR etc. Here, the exposures are as low as 10 milliseconds (for conventional lasers, 100 milliseconds are the lowest duration). This enables laser treatment with no visible endpoint or damaged tissue.
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How much does a blue laser cost?

Blue “Lightsaber” Laser Can Blind, Burn Flesh, and Costs Only $200.
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How long do Blu-ray lasers last?

If stored under ideal conditions CD/DVD/Blu Ray media will degrade to useless within about 50 years (and as digital media, its good until the moment it isn't, unlike film which degrades, but is still usable for a while).
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What makes a purple laser?

Lasers emitting wavelengths below 445 nm appear violet (but are sometimes called blue lasers).
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How far does a laser pointer travel?

A 5 milliwatt laser: a distraction 2 miles away

In the United States, lasers sold for pointing uses cannot exceed 5 mW. The diagram below shows the hazard distances for a 5 milliwatt “U.S. legal” green laser pointer with a 1 milliradian beam divergence: It is a potential eye hazard from the pointer to about 52 feet.
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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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What is the strongest burning laser you can buy?

The Odin 5 watts blue laser is the most powerful handheld burning laser in the market.
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What is a green laser used for?

They can be used as pointing devices. The ability to form a continuous line in the dark is an added advantage; this has lead to its usage as rescue lights as it can be seen from miles away. It as been used for laser light shows. It is also used for sky gazing as a person can pinpoint a star by using the green laser.
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How do green lasers work?

A standard laser diode first generates near infrared light with a wavelength of 808nm. This is focused onto a neodymium crystal that converts the light into infrared with a wavelength of 1064nm. In the final step, the light passes into a frequency doubling crystal that emits green light at a wavelength of 532nm.
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Can a laser pointer reach the 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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