Eye-safety analysis of current laser-based scanned-beam projection systems

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 944-951

  Buckley, Edward ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser; Projections; Safety scanned beam

Indexed keywords

BEAM SYSTEM; CLASS 1; CURRENT TECHNOLOGY; IEC 60825-1; LUMINOUS FLUX; POWER EFFICIENCY; POWER LIMIT; PROJECTIONS; RADIOMETRIC IMAGES; SAFETY ANALYSIS; SAFETY CLASSIFICATION; SAFETY SCANNED BEAM;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; MOBILE DEVICES; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PROJECTION SYSTEMS;

LASER SAFETY;

EID: 78649357350     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/JSID18.11.944     Document Type: Article

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