If there is dust in the air you can see it as it hits these particles. By the way, you can't see any form of light, laser or otherwise, as it passes through clean air.
Because there are no particles large enough to reflect the light back to the viewer.
Power applied to laser, wavelength & angle of viewing it.
A laser is the device itself, the beam is.. well, the beam coming out of the laser.
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.
If there is dust in the air you can see it as it hits these particles. By the way, you can't see any form of light, laser or otherwise, as it passes through clean air.
Because there are no particles large enough to reflect the light back to the viewer.
Power applied to laser, wavelength & angle of viewing it.
You cant. But maybe at the end.
A laser is the device itself, the beam is.. well, the beam coming out of the laser.
How can yo u get laser beam?What is laser beam characteristics and principles?
If you see the beam, you are seeing the scattered light being reflected off particles in the air. Any light you actually see is no longer laser light, assuming you have sense enough not to look at it directly.
"Caution Laser Beam" is a phrase used on warning signs and labels to alert users and passersby that a laser beam may be present.
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.
This would not be possible for a couple of reasons. First let us set up the following scenario. We will shoot a laser from the Earth to the Moon which will take 1.2 seconds to arrive. You will be observing from 240,000 miles away in a spaceship that is at a right angle to the laser beam. This will make the Moon the same apparent size as it is on Earth. In theory, you should see a laser beam begin from Earth and quickly get longer and longer until it reaches the Moon in 1.2 seconds. The problem is that when we see a laser beam, we are not actually seeing the beam itself, only a small part of the beam reflecting off particles in the laser beam's path. Since space is a vacuum, there are no particles for the beam to reflect off, so we see nothing unless the laser beam is pointed directly at us, which in this case is not. The other problem is that when the laser light is reflected toward us from the particles, it is also scattered and would be much too faint to observe from that distance, even with a telescope.
optical fiber
Dead battery OR very clean air.