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by kyzyl 2362 days ago
Actually most pulsed lidar systems use pretty high peak powers, which result in an eye-safe average power only because they are on for a sequence of very short pulses (~1ns). It's pretty unlikely OP is actually experiencing vision problems due to lidars, but it's probably possible for some kind of weird interaction to happen in the eyeball due to the high power pulses. Even so, it's unlikely to be causing an damage, temporary or otherwise. I would hope it doesn't happen to him/her while driving or something, though.