Laser pointers may be great fun to tease the cat with, but for pilots they are a major hazard. The United States FAA reports over 2,000 incidents every year of planes having lasers pointed at them - ...

Laser work and similar operations create intense concentrations of heat, ultraviolet, infrared and reflected light radiation. A laser beam of sufficient power, can produce intensities greater than ...

Flight Officer Camron Iverson of the Washington State Patrol tested laser protection lenses formulated at AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. (Courtesy photo) WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE ...

Eye injuries are of primary concern. The effect to the eye depends on various factors, including pupil size, pigmentation, laser pulse duration and repetition, and wavelength. Pierre Gougelman had the ...

In this month's Buyer's Guide we take a look at the range of equipment available to help you make your laser laboratory safer. Eyewear is often the first - and sometimes the only - item that many ...

I think we all winced when we read, back in September, about the Delta pilot who was hit in the eye by a laser while flying a 737. Or about the 20 year-old Los Alamos intern who was zapped during a ...

Pierre Gougelman had the first glass eye factory in the United States in 1851. At first, the public thought artificial eyes actually gave their wearers new sight. If only glass eyes worked that way!