Figure 6: Mortality from longer wavelength infrared sources.
From: Laser induced mortality of Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes
CO2 laser (10.6 μm wavelength) mortality data and logistic regression fits from 2.5 mm Gaussian beam, 25 ms pulses, variable power 1–3 W (purple squares and long-dashed line, fit with ordinary R2 = 0.99 and LLR pseudo R2 = 0.93); from 2.5 mm beam, 10 W, variable pulse length 2–5 ms (black diamonds and thin solid line, fit with ordinary R2 = 0.99 and LLR pseudo R2 = 0.90); and from 5.8 mm Gaussian beam, 25 ms pulses, variable power 2–10 W (green triangles and short-dashed line, fit with ordinary R2 = 0.96 and LLR pseudo R2 = 0.88). Blue X’s and thick solid line are data and fit (ordinary R2 = 0.99 and LLR pseudo R2 = 0.94) from 1.47 μm diode producing 2.5 mm Gaussian beam, 25 ms pulses, variable power 4 to 10 W. In all cases, error bars are plus and minus exact binomial 95% confidence intervals.
