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Old 9th June 2008, 11:52 PM
David Knudsen David Knudsen is offline
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Originally Posted by Pieter S
and also why green light?
I believe the wavelength of the green laser allows it to maintain its brightness over distance a lot better than red lasers, and also the human eye is a lot more sensitive to green light than red.

From memory a 1mW green laser appears about 50 times brighter than a 1mW red laser.
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