using color gels to change 5mW laser color...tia sal

color of a laser?

Laser produces monochromatic light.

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Boris Mohar

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It would not work. Any filter, other than the color of the LASER, would totally block the light.

Filters work with tungsten(and other) lamps because those lamps produce light across a wide spectrum of visible "frequencies" (colors). LASERS only produce one narrow band of frequency (color).

the color of a laser?

So lets see... Shine a pure red laser through a filter that only lets greeen light through and you get what out the other side.. ?

Nothing. Absoulutely nothing. The red light waves would not go trough. And a Red LASER is only red light, not any other color. LASER is special _because_ it is only one wavelength already.

greeen

Correct. Give the man a prize :-)