Lasers Research Paper

Pilots might be blinded by laser rays, and to fully understand this problem we have to identify what a laser actually is. Writers of the Wikimedia Foundation described lasers like this: “A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The term "laser" originated as a similar word for "light changes by stimulated rays of radiation"”. People have always told their kids or peers “don't shine a laser into your brothers eye” and “put that down you could hurt someone”, “That could make you blind”. But to know more about what role a laser plays in danger to aircrafts pilots we have to know what the actual consequence is of having a laser shown a your eye. Patrick murphy, A writer for Lasersaftey.com stated, “ a laser’s light is concentrated into a narrow beam.

Now teens have started to take it out on aircrafts as they point lasers into the air right at the cockpit. This is very dangerous and there is a part of an article of mentle floss.com to explain why: “While the practice has yet to result in an accident, pilots have been forced to change course; more than 35 have required Medical attention, which is why the FBI have taken extraordinary measures to try and stop people from pointing them at planes—a bizarre habit officials have called “lasing” that resulted in nearly 4000 reported cases in 2013 alone”. This is of course really worrying that this is happening because imagine if someone was on a plane and one of the pilots become blind right as they are about to land it would be really scary. This has happened 35 times since pilots needed medical attention 35 times, they were permanently or temporarily blinded by lasers bringing the whole aircraft in