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What's the maximum power of the world's strongest laser???
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Kukloprdos
Modified 10mW Greenie
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| Are there any international laws on this? Like... can any army shoot at people with lasers and like cut them in half? |
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Schrecken Licht
Wicked Lasers Master
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Location: Maryland USA
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| Posted: 2/03/08, 12:22 AM Post subject: |
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| Kukloprdos wrote: |
| Are there any international laws on this? Like... can any army shoot at people with lasers and like cut them in half? |
The only international law concerning laser weapons is the (I think the year is right, but it's close) 1992 Geneva Convention prohibition of blinding laser weapons. In other words, it prohibits the use of laser weapons designed specifically to blind enemy soldiers (stuff like Wicked's Photonic Disruptor only cause temporary visual impairment - it's the permanent damage stuff that's banned). Otherwise, all bets are off. A powerful laser could be used in the same way as a conventional gun - just another tool to kill the enemy.
But most non-classified laser weapons in development are designed to take out missiles, aircraft and vehicles (at least officially). That doesn't mean they won't be used to kill soldiers, though. A weapon is a weapon and if the situation calls for it a laser could be used to take out personnel. I don't think the targets would be cut in half, just partly incinerated  . Of course, if a laser that powerful is fired at a soldier, blindness will be the least of his worries!
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Kukloprdos
Modified 10mW Greenie
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| Posted: 2/04/08, 10:14 AM Post subject: |
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| Schrecken Licht wrote: |
| Kukloprdos wrote: |
| Are there any international laws on this? Like... can any army shoot at people with lasers and like cut them in half? |
The only international law concerning laser weapons is the (I think the year is right, but it's close) 1992 Geneva Convention prohibition of blinding laser weapons. In other words, it prohibits the use of laser weapons designed specifically to blind enemy soldiers (stuff like Wicked's Photonic Disruptor only cause temporary visual impairment - it's the permanent damage stuff that's banned). Otherwise, all bets are off. A powerful laser could be used in the same way as a conventional gun - just another tool to kill the enemy.
But most non-classified laser weapons in development are designed to take out missiles, aircraft and vehicles (at least officially). That doesn't mean they won't be used to kill soldiers, though. A weapon is a weapon and if the situation calls for it a laser could be used to take out personnel. I don't think the targets would be cut in half, just partly incinerated . Of course, if a laser that powerful is fired at a soldier, blindness will be the least of his worries! |
anyone watched the movie war of the worlds? They could have taken down those alien robots with lasers EZ |
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Jonazzaz
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Maybe they could, because a laserbeam is not a physical thing, it could go right trough the shieldthing
Make a War Of The Worlds 2, its 10 minutes long, and the robots are defeated with lasers within minutes  |
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fnugget
Elite Laser
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| Posted: 2/06/08, 10:29 AM Post subject: upper limi |
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there is an upper limit of sorts. however, it depends on the size of the beam. I don't know if this has been done, but the theory makes sense. Apparently you can pack so much laser in so small a space, that the strength of the electric field is so big that it breaks down in air.
Theres a similar limit to wireless data transfer. |
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yathern
Fusion Laser
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| Posted: 2/11/08, 8:45 PM Post subject: |
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| Schrecken Licht- Show us pics of your 20W! Thats about the closest any of us have to a lab one! |
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ltstab
55mW Advanced Wicked Laser
Joined: 14 Nov 2006
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: 2/13/08, 2:28 AM Post subject: |
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| Schrecken, what exactly do you do? Do you work for a laser company? |
Uh, not really....actually I'm just a freelance artist with a bachelor's degree in photography (right now I'm doing a lot of movie and haunted house props)! However, I did at one time work in a laser machine shop (I didn't choose to work there because of the lasers - I just needed work period, but I joined a temp agency and that's where they sent me). I was there less than a year but I found the place immensely fascinating and I decided to learn everything I could about lasers.
That was eight years ago, but about a year ago I began to write a science fiction novel and again I did a huge amount of research on lasers and laser weaponry. Now all I have to do is try to get my novel published! |
When said novel is published I will totally buy it. LAZORS AWAY!!!! |
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Bluefan
Elite Laser
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| Posted: 5/17/08, 12:46 PM Post subject: |
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| yathern wrote: |
| Schrecken Licht- Show us pics of your 20W! Thats about the closest any of us have to a lab one! |
Hey, I might just get a 6W argon ion laser from my university, and that's visible, not far in the IR.
But, they first need to find it's PSU.. |
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