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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Lasers for communication
Message-ID: <2019@argus.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 90 18:25:54 GMT
References: <1872@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <153DAVE@ORION> <19149@frog.UUCP>
Organization: NJ Instit. of Tech: TEIES Project
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In article <19149@frog.UUCP>, john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) writes:
: In article <1990Sep19.194119.229@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, spgreg@earth.lerc.nasa.gov (Greg Macrae) writes:
: > In article <3809@osc.COM>, jgk@osc.COM (Joe Keane) writes...
: < >and cool down.  My stupid laser takes half a minute just to turn on.
: < The delay before start of your laser is a government mandated safety feature
: Thus giving you enough time to line up your eye with the beam output?	;-)

Yup, I can see it now, turn the laser on, hm, no light, check the power cords,
yup they are in, hm, maybe if I look down the barrel I can see something
blocking the light...... :-)

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