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2. Laser pointer - Wikipedia

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   Red (635 nm), blueish violet (445 nm), and green (520 nm) laser pointers. A laser pointer or laser pen is a (typically battery-powered) handheld device that uses a laser diode to emit a narrow low-power visible laser beam (i.e. coherent light) to highlight something of interest with a small bright colored spot.

3. Starfire Optical Range - Wikipedia

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   Scintillation is also a problem in development of weaponized lasers, such as the airborne laser being developed to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles. According to an article published on May 3, 2006, in The New York Times , research is being conducted at the laboratory into how to use ground-based lasers to disable satellites ; that ...

4. List of laser applications - Wikipedia

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   Another military use of lasers is as a laser target designator. This is a low-power laser pointer used to indicate a target for a precision-guided munition, typically launched from an aircraft. The guided munition adjusts its flight-path to home in to the laser light reflected by the target, enabling a great precision in aiming.

5. Diode-pumped solid-state laser - Wikipedia

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   The most common DPSSL in use is the 532 nm wavelength green laser pointer. A powerful (>200 mW ) 808 nm wavelength infrared GaAlAs laser diode pumps a neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (Nd:YAG) or a neodymium-doped yttrium orthovanadate (Nd:YVO 4 ) crystal which produces 1064 nm wavelength light from the main spectral transition of ...

6. Laser guide star - Wikipedia

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   Powerful laser guide star system at the Paranal Observatory. The actual laser guide star is the small spot above the apparent end of the laser beam. A laser guide star is an artificial star image created for use in astronomical adaptive optics systems, which are employed in large telescopes in order to correct atmospheric distortion of light (called astronomical seeing).

7. Nd:YAG laser - Wikipedia

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   A green laser pointer is a frequency doubled Nd:YVO 4 diode-pumped solid state laser . [48] Nd:YAG can be also made to lase at its non-principal wavelength. The line at 946 nm is typically employed in "blue laser pointer" DPSS lasers, where it is doubled to 473 nm. [49] [50] [51]