News tagged with random lasing

Is random lasing possible with a cold atom cloud?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Random lasing, Robin Kaiser tells PhysOrg.com, is like standard lasing, with a little bit of a twist: “You don’t know the direction the photons will go, as you do with a more standard laser. This is becaus ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4 feature




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New lasing technique inspired by brightly colored birds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Yale University have succeeded in building a new kind of laser based on the way brightly colored birds show their colors. Building on the new approach to creating laser beams, ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Quantum leap for phonon lasers

Physicists have taken major step forward in the development of practical phonon lasers, which emit sound in much the same way that optical lasers emit light. The development should lead to new, high-resolution ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

How 'random' lasers work

When University of Utah scientists discovered a new kind of laser that was generated by an electrically conducting plastic or polymer, no one could explain how it worked and some doubted it was real. Now, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticle Scattering Improves Laser Performance

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Light scattering” and “optical performance” are two concepts that usually head in opposite directions, but they have recently been shown to walk happily hand-in-hand. The results are impressive ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Discovery of Non-blinking Semiconductor Nanocrystals Advances their Applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- Substantial advances for applications of nanocrystals in the fields requiring a continuous output of photons and high quantum efficiency may soon be realized due to discovery of non-blinking semiconductor ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Discovery of non-blinking semiconductor nanocrystals advances their applications

Substantial advances for applications of nanocrystals in the fields requiring a continuous output of photons and high quantum efficiency may soon be realized due to discovery of non-blinking semiconductor nanocrystals. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Researchers discover new type of laser

A Princeton-led team of researchers has discovered an entirely new mechanism for making common electronic materials emit laser beams. The finding could lead to lasers that operate more efficiently and at higher ...

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created Dec 22, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 0

Can silver nanoparticles be the key to a more compact laser?

“In random media, multiple scattering and interference reduce the diffusion of light, and in case of extremely strong scattering, photon localization, or Anderson localization of light, is predicted like electrons in glasses,” ...

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created Jun 09, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (22) | comments 3 feature

New unifying theory of lasers advanced by physicists

Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (33) | comments 2

Advance by chemists may lead to better displays on laptop computers, cell phones

UCLA chemists working at the nanoscale have developed a new, inexpensive means of forcing luminescent polymers to give off polarized light and of confining that light to produce polymer-based lasers.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 18, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 0


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