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From: ins_aeas@jhunix.UUCP (Earle A .Sugar)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Laser Pulse Speed Enforcing
Message-ID: <2081@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 09:24:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 09:24:12 1986
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> In article <442@utastro.UUCP> fbr@utastro.UUCP (Frank Ray) writes:
> >Never fear.  If the fuzz are beaming electromagnetic energy at
> >you, it can be detected.
> 
> Not necessarily! If the laser beam is only a couple of millimeters
> wide, then the chances of it hitting the sensor for your dectctor are
> pretty slim.
> 
> Trevor J. Smedley                    University of Waterloo
> 
> {decvax,allegra,ihnp4,utzoo}!watmum!tjsmedley
Not exactly.  Don't forget, there is atmosphere between the laser and your car,
and that beam will be diffused all over the place.  So, a sensitive detector 
should be able to detect the presence of a specific wavelength of light, 
although normal background light may make detection impossible because
your detector would be constantly going off.

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Earle A. Sugar
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