Re: [PSES] Automatic measurement with Class 2 laser

2018-01-22 Thread Gary Tornquist
Visible optical sources that are intense enough to be potentially hazardous are painful to look at. The safety standards assume that an aversion response, blinking or looking away, will happen in no longer than 0.25 seconds. This however can be overcome by an act of will, such as when people w

Re: [PSES] Automatic measurement with Class 2 laser

2018-01-22 Thread James Pawson (U3C)
Hi Charlie, A slight aside: I'm not a laser expert, but is there a way of soft starting the laser over the course of a couple of seconds, perhaps via PWM, that could be used to mitigate the hazard associated with sudden beam appearance? All the best James From: Charlie Blackham [mai