The Lasermet LS-20 Safety Shutter is intended to provide a means of preventing accidental exposure to a potentially harmful laser beams. It has been designed to form part of a high-integrity safety ...

To get the most out of a laser, whether for communications or measurements, it must often be shaped or sliced into small sections. One reliable and inexpensive method of doing this is to use a ...

This circuit is presented as an alternative to the IR beam break detector featured in the June 2009 issue (Silicon Chip). In order to make it relatively insensitive to ambient light, it uses a ...

I'm well aware that having light shoot out of your fingertips is pretty much useless, but it's cool, nevertheless. That's why when I set eyes on these Laser Finger Beams, they immediately went on my ...