Editing List of laser applications (section)

====Eye-targeted lasers====
A [[less-lethal]] laser weapon was developed by the U.S. Air Force to temporarily impair an adversary's ability to fire a weapon or to otherwise threaten enemy forces. This unit illuminates an opponent with harmless low-power laser light and can have the effect of dazzling or disorienting the subject or causing them to flee.  Several types of [[dazzler (weapon)|dazzlers]] are now available, and some have been used in combat.

There remains the possibility of using lasers to blind, since this requires relatively low power levels and is easily achievable in a man-portable unit. However, most nations regard the deliberate permanent blinding of the enemy as forbidden by the [[Laws of war|rules of war]] (see [[Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons]]).  Although several nations have developed blinding laser weapons, such as China's [[ZM-87]], none of these are believed to have made it past the prototype stage.

In addition to the applications that cross over with military applications, a widely known law enforcement use of lasers is for [[lidar]] to measure the speed of vehicles.