RE: Laser safety questions

2002-11-13 Thread David Heald
Well, In response to question 1, you may want to try for Class 1M. The new measurement geometries allow many class 3B lasers to be reclassified as 1M. I would assume (although I have no direct experience here) that the visible spectrum lasers would also benefit from the new geometries (BTW,

RE: Laser safety questions

2002-11-13 Thread Richard Hughes
Mark, Regarding question #1 Perhaps your question is based on the misconception that in Europe and elsewhere we use IEC standards directly. This in fact is not the case. For Europe we use ENs agreed by CENELEC and published by national standards bodies, such as BSI. These ENs are frequently

Re: Laser safety questions

2002-11-13 Thread John Woodgate
I read in !emc-pstc that Gandler, Mark mgand...@ciena.com wrote (in 4fb204c0ca96d54aa7805b3715620bdd13b...@w2ksjexg02.oni.com) about 'Laser safety questions' on Tue, 12 Nov 2002: According to the new revision of IEC 60825-1 (2001-08) , there are following laser products classes: 1, 1M, 2, 2M ,