I don't know why a comparison of pointers needs to be such a big production. In choosing laser sights for weapons, you simply point the competing laser sights at a wall and go with the laser that produces the brightest and smallest spot. Quoting Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com>:
Make that "factor", not function.
Could be interesting, but we'd need a lot of distance between the laser operator and the person with the ruler. Also, a spot size small enough to measure directly would probably mean a hazardously bright environment directly in the beam. Kurt, you've researched lasers over relatively short distances, what do you think about this?
--- Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:
Don't you think that coherence will be a contributing function to brightness?
--- Michael Carnes <michaelcarnes@earthlink.net> wrote:
Seems like beam coherence (spread over distance) might also be a good thing to measure. That's the only thing that might require some space.
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