Space-based lasers: the final frontier?
The laser at 50: what can you do with a laser in space that you can't do on the ground? Narasimha Prasad sheds some light
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From ray-gun to Blu-ray
Fifty years after their invention, Sidney Perkowitz examines the huge impact of lasers on science, culture and everyday life
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Where next for the laser?
Six laser experts recall how the laser has advanced their fields of interest – and speculate where it will take these areas next
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Fusion’s bright new dawn
The world's largest laser could transform the search for abundant, carbon-free electricity, as Mike Dunne explains
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Combing makes for neat qubits
Frequency comb entangles two atomic qubits
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Science meets innovation at Stanford Photonics Research Center
Innovation is a core value for scientists at the Stanford Photonics Research Center
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Bright stuff: LCLS ready to shine
Phil Bucksbaum talks about the "extraordinary opportunities to study new phenomena" using the world's brightest X-ray laser
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Trapped ions go for a quantum walk
Longest quantum walk to date could lead to computing applications
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Hail the first sound ‘lasers’
Sound amplification by stimulated emission achieved by two groups
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First light for germanium laser
Strain bridges an indirect bandgap
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