Chemical oxygen iodine laser

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A chemical oxygen iodine laser (COIL) is a near–infrared chemical laser. As the beam is infrared, it cannot be seen with the naked eye. It is capable of output power scaling up to megawatts in continuous mode.^{[citation needed]} Its output wavelength is 1315 nm, a transition wavelength of atomic iodine.