Apparently cheap green lasers have crappy IR filters and thus you could potentially blind yourself, the risk is low but it's interesting.
http://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=906138
IR emissions from cheap green lasers
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IR emissions from cheap green lasers
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Re: IR emissions from cheap green lasers
Interesting article. However, it would also be interesting to know whether the other two laser pointers with lower IR emissions did have an infrared filter in them. All we know is that the highest IR emission one of the 3 didn't have an infrared filter. If the others did have the filter then it would be a big marketing point for them.
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