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Laser-generated Air Contaminants (Plume)
Laser Safety Officer (LSO)
Laser Protection Supervisor (LPS)
Light
Macula
Maximum Permissible Exposure (MPE)
James Clerk Maxwell
Monochromatic Light
Nanometre (nm)
Nd:YAG Laser Optical Density
Air contaminants generated when Class 4 and some Class 3B laser beams interact with materials and tissues. The quantity, composition and chemical complexity of the LGAC depend on the target material, cover gas and beam irradiance. Materials such as plastics, composites, metals and tissues may release carcinogenic, toxic and noxious air contaminants. Ozone is produced around flash lamps and can build up with high repetition rate lasers. Smoke/plume extractors may be utilised to capture these contaminants.
One who has authority to monitor and enforce measures to the control of laser hazards and effect the knowledgeable evaluation and control of laser hazards.
Very similar to LSO (but slightly different!).
The range of electromagnetic radiation frequencies detected by the eye, or the wavelength range from about 400 to around 760 nanometres. The term is sometimes used loosely to include radiation beyond visible limits. See more here...
The small uniquely pigmented specialized area of the retina of the eye, which, in normal individuals, is predominantly employed for acute central vision (i.e., area of best visual acuity).
The level of laser radiation to which a person may be exposed without hazardous effects or adverse biological changes in the eye or skin.
A Scottish genius whose work on the electromagnetic form of light led to many modern inventions. Albert Einstein stated that he could not have derived his work on relativity without Maxwell’s work.
Theoretically, light consisting of just one wavelength. No light is absolutely single frequency since it will have some bandwidth. Lasers provide the narrowest of bandwidths that can be achieved.
A unit of length in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one billionth of a metre. Abbreviated ‘nm’ - a measure of length. One nm equals 10-9 metre, which is 0.000000001 metres, and is the usual measure of light wavelengths. Visible light ranges from about 400 nm in the purple to about 760 nm in the deep red.
Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminium Garnet. A synthetic crystal used as a laser medium to produce 1064 nm light.
A logarithmic expression for the attenuation produced by an attenuating medium, such as an eye protection filter.
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