Submitted by SurprisedPotato t3_10utol4 in askscience
dramignophyte t1_j7ip4he wrote
Reply to comment by zerpa in Why are green and red laser pointers so cheap and available, but yellow ones not so much? by SurprisedPotato
I was typing a wrong response but I can tell you why it doesn't work: lasers run parallel and it's kind of an important aspect of them. In order to mix something, they need to converge. So you need to adjust the focus point of the two lasers to account for distance. I was thinking maybe fiber optics but that wouldn't change the fact you can't change the position of light in that way or it will diffuse or not converge to mix the colors.
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