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Properties of laser light are: monochromacity (the same color), coherence (all of the light waves are in phase both spatially and temporally), collimation (all rays are parallel to each other and do not diverge significantly even over long distances).

Types of lasers

• Solid-state laser.
• Gas laser.
• Liquid laser.
• Semiconductor laser.

The most powerful laser beam ever created has been recently fired at Osaka University in Japan, where the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments (LFEX) has been boosted to produce a beam with a peak power of 2,000 trillion watts – two petawatts – for an incredibly short duration, approximately a trillionth of a second or …

Over their 50-year history, lasers have gone from producing powers of a few hundred watts to greater than a petawatt, or a quadrillion watts. Several key technological jumps have allowed researchers to compress laser beams into infinitesimally short pulses, which amplifies their peak power.

Lasers may not be able to kill, but they can cause blindness by burning the eye’s light-sensitive retina.

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.

A: The light from a laser in space would continue on forever unless it hit something. However, if you were far enough away, you wouldn’t be able to detect the light. If you go far enough away, the light will eventually spread out far enough to be undetectable.

Blue and violet lasers can be particularly dangerous because human eyes are least sensitive to these color frequencies. When a laser beam hits the windshield of a plane, it can diffuse into a glow that impairs the pilot’s vision. A laser beam that strikes a pilot’s eye can also cause flash-blindness or blurry vision.

If you aimed a laser at interstellar space, the light would keep going forever but would be spread over a larger and larger area. The universe has some dust and gas to absorb the beam and reradiate the energy as heat, but interstellar matter is also rather sparse and not a significant source of loss.

While traveling through the vacuum of space, laser beams are invisible unless shot directly into your eye. The vacuum of space does not have anything to reflect the light back into your eye. Only by adding air, dust, or debris does a light beam become visible from the side.

Visible laser light can be blocked by anything that also blocks conventional light, such as a solid curtain, a wall, or even a sheet of paper.

So light from the laser is definitely scattered as the distance increases – but in clear air, there isn’t much of an effect in terms of power reduction. However, if there is anything floating around in the air (water vapor, smoke, etc) -then the laser’s power may be sharply reduced as a consequence.

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It will bounce off at the same angle it hit. If you shine a laser on a mirror, you can only see the light if you are in the direction it bounces, and then it looks like the light came from behind the mirror. It will still look like it came from behind the mirror. This is what we call a reflection.

What would happen if you fired a laser gun at a mirror? simple silvered glass mirrors only reflect about 70% of light so the remaining 30% would be converted to heat. Depending on the exact power of the laser used this could result in the mirror exploding or simply melting.

This happens over and over again as the light hits each boundary, so the laser remains caught in the waterfall. Because they’re made up of long fibres of glass or plastic, these fibre optic cables can trap beams of light, just like the waterfall does in the video above, and can guide it anywhere its needed.

Yes the laser emission itself will travel through water, accounting for refraction. But as for most laser devices, they are not water resistant. However, you can get water resistant lasers nowadays so you should have no problem.

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A beam of laser light can be trapped inside a stream of water by suffering total internal reflection—the aquatic equivalent of a fiber optic cable.

Laser light go in a straight path because is light. Any photon will travel in a straight path unless refracted or reflected or generally scattered or absorbed in matter. Thus, laser photons do the same. The main difference is that that you have a lot of photons travelling almost parallel.