Class I lasers are not harmful to the eye. Class II lasers are only harmful if the blink reflex is defeated. It doesn't make any difference what the visible color is. UV lasers can be dangerous at very low power output.
If your kid chases the light and runs into walls or falls off of long drops, you should avoid that.
a red laser like a CD
A standard green laser pointer has a power of between 4 and 20 milliwatts. A red laser, for comparison, has a power of less than 5 milliwatts. The beam of a green laser can often be seen, while the beam of a red laser cannot be seen.
A continuous-wave laser, or CW laser, is part of many items. A laser pointer's red beam is an example of a CW laser. CW lasers are also used in holography.
Both beams travel at the same speed.
directly below it
You can see light rays with dust, flour, etc. If you turn on a flashlight, you can drop dust right where the light travels to actually see that beam of light. The same thing happens with red laser beams.
Red - its 650 nanometer wavelength puts it squarely in the middle of the visible light's red spectrum.
Cyclops could shoot a red laser beam out of his eyes. He also dated Jean Grey.
its, mostly Infra Red, a colour you can't see.
The difference is that red-dot sights have contained aiming reticles, whereas laser sights use an emitted laser beam that must fall onto a target. Red-dot sights are used mainly for more accurate ADS (aiming down sight) firing and laser sights allow for less-accurate, but made more so, shoulder-firing.
There are multiple types of alarm systems and sensors available for them. While low-powered lasers could be used, they are not usually. More common is what is called a PIR, or Passive Infra-Red detector. These detectors usually give a "cone" of infrared light which detects movement, whereas a laser beam would need to be "broken" (the beam would need to be interrupted). Because of the coherent nature of a laser beam (the beam travels in a narrow, straight path), compared to the wide coverage of a PIR motion sensor, lasers are rarely used.
Red laser light.