Is it possible to create a laser gun this way?

Question

What if I made a beam of highly concentrated and high frequency radio waves. Would it not burn a hole in you by heat (like a microwave) or give you cancer?

Answer 1

Ok first off wookie man is wrong. My career deals in radio waves. It's the power, not the frequency that causes harm. Destructive lasers already exist. You can trust me on that, but they don't use radio wave. That would take too much power. They use liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. the only problem is that the laser is the size of a boeing 747. By increasin frequency it wont do anything. You need power and no your wall outlet wont work. If you're looking for a handheld laser, you wont find it in the century. Like I said before, my job deals with lasers and radio waves.

Answer 2

Microwaves do not burn a hole in someone, they interact with your body on the cellular level, attacking DNA and other vital cellular organs. The power required to "burn" all the way through a person, while possible, (and already achieved, by the way) will be impossible to use in a handheld or even vehicle-based form for many years to come. So yes, depending on the power, it is possible, but not in a handheld form. (It would also be quite easy to shield a person from microwave beams. Look at the screen on your microwave oven. That is all that is required to stop the waves, as they are so large.) Radio waves, however, are harmless to people. Even if it is possible to hurt someone with them, the power required would be astronomical.

Answer 3

cancer? eventually maybe.
burn? sure.
the question is size and power.
a device you can carry (power and control optics)
is another story entirely. consider some of the high power uv optics systems...they may be over 15 feet long! not exactly 'single user ready'. also consider there using special high voltage power supplies. simply put it's very difficult to pack that much energy intot hat small a space. battery technology is simply not 'dense' enough at the moment to be usefull in a reusable stable form for a lazer gun.

single shot lazer devices through high power discharge capacitors focused through pulsed lazer sources work (see femto second lazers) but then why would you want a lazer that takes an hour to charge up and only has one shot?

guns are cheaper and easier to design and use, and are far more effective.

Answer 4

That wouldn't make a LASER, but it could be a weapon. At the right power, it wouldn't even be lethal. The military wants to use it for crowd control.

Answer 5

Its called a mazer and was the predicessor to the laser