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Laser Light Characteristics

Coherent Laser Waves



The important laser light characteristics are normally shared by all lasers. Specific characteristics depend on design of the resonator and controlling optical system.

The unique light characteristics of lasers are coherency, collimation and monochromacity. Laser light is unique and unlike other light.


A laser is a light beam

Mockery of laser light characteristics Specific laser light characteristics depend upon the design of the resonator and the controlling optical system.

These unique characteristics make laser light different from any other light.

This old girl knows very well it wasn't lasers Darth Vader and the others used to fight with in "Star Wars". Why not, you ask?

Because a laser beam is a light beam that shines on into infinity! Light isn't solid.

Duh, how can you have a sword fight with two light beams? But it looked wonderful and colourful in the movies, so I guess it's OK.





Lasers' unique characteristics

Laser light characteristics vs incandescent light The image left clearly shows how a laser's beam is totally unique and quite different to other light sources.

The three differences are:

1. Coherency

A laser beam's wave patterns are locked in orderly and powerful rows. The beams emitted by a globe are unorderly and not in rows.

All phasing of peaks and troughs of a laser beam are identical and stays the same over extremely long distances. The effect is amplification and orderliness. The brightness of the light is increased and mathematical order is provided to the wave phase pattern.

This specific laser light characteristic makes it possible to produce holograms or three dimentional images with lasers.

2. Collimation

This describes how a laser light beam stays together very tightly over very long distances only diverging very slightly (almostly insignificant) when measured in the angular measurement of radians against all other light sources.

Coherent laser light characteristics Laser divergence can be from 0.5 to 10 milliradians, but is typically as little as 1 milliradian. Collimation is partly due to photons being merged in time and space, and partly because the resonator is configured as a long slender tube called a resonant cavity.

This cavity has an output mirror on the one end and a total reflection mirror on the other end. The light bounces back and forth many times between the two mirrored ends inside the cavity before leaving it as a thin beam of light.

3. Monochromatic

Pure colors of light are produced by lasers. And not necessarily only one color. Some lasers can even generate as many as 10 different colors in very narrow bands in the same beam. The color of laser beams are very interesting.

By using technology the desired color may be tuned from the laser, thereby only emitting one pure color. This feature is mainly used for surgical purposes such as opthalmology, dermatology and photodynamic therapy.


Laser light vs ordinary light

Laser light characteristics compared with ordinary light Laser light characteristics are mostly shared by all laser beams.

But laser devices can also differ greatly with respect to their size, divergence and distribution of light across the diameter of the laser light beam.

The specific characteristics of the equipment depend strongly upon the design of the laser cavity (resonator) and the optical system controlling the beam, both within the cavity and its output.

Wavelengths are measured in nanometer from one peak to the next. A nanometer is about one billionth of a meter in length.

A laser is a device that converts some form of energy (usually electrical) into optical energy through photon emission when an electron falls to a lower energy level and loses some energy.


Laser wave characteristics

Laser light characteristics - typical wave Every type of laser works on just one, I repeat, just one unique wavelength.

For example, the Nd:YAG laser operates on 1064nm.

A light wave may be compared to a sound wave.

Intense light beams of several different colors are generated by a laser, exhibiting characteristics of photons or waves.

The laser medium is the substance used to produce light.

The specific type of laser is usually named after its active medium, eg Argon/Kripton, Copper Bromide, CO2, etc.

Wave characteristics are:
  1. wavelength
  2. frequency
  3. velocity and
  4. amplitude (brightness) .

The shorter the wavelength, the bluer the color and the more energy in the photon. The wavelengths of red light are longer. Not all lasers are used for hair photo-epilation.


Other uses for lasers

Lasers are applied in the industrial, medical, surgical, dermatological, gyneacological, opthalmological, cosmetological, etc fields with huge success.

The use of each type of laser is according to the technology used to build the device for its specific purpose. Other uses for lasers are engraving, welding, teeth whitening, skin rejuvenation, tattoo removal, printers, pointers, etc.

It is clear that there are numerous types of lasers, all sharing the same laser light characteristics. Each type of laser has its own very specific characteristics according to the technology that was used to build it.

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