
Originally Posted by
White-Light
Errr no.
Most Class IV lasers are CW.
Most laserscopes are pulsed meaning that each pulse of light may be many hundreds of times the suggested CW power. As the CW power reading is an average of the pulses combined with the zero output in between, the zero output intervals give a much misleading impression of the true power when measured using CW methods.
Or to put in another way, a laserscope with a CW rating of say 2 watts may if its actually a pulsed laser be putting out pulses in the hundreds of watts range. Absolutely fatal to eyesight from the slightest glance and sometimes even from the brightness of the reflections from walls etc.
You'd be well advised to steer clear unless you really know what you're doing with those things as they are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.