Latest Invention: The Smallest Laser in the World Created by US Researchers
The latest invention of American researchers is the laser that claims to be the smallest in the world. They managed to develop the laser by squeezing light into a space that is even tinier than a protein molecule. Their latest invention could be a significant breakthrough in the field of optical technology, making one step closer to nanolasers, which can be used to investigate and manipulate DNA. In addition, the laser can lead to the creation of super-fast computers and improved telecommunications.
The team of researchers was led by Professor Xiang Zhang. He mentioned that the plasmon laser constricts light into a gap that is only 5nm wide. An important step was the ability to detain light in a small space for a specific period of time required for light to stabilize into a "coherent" laser state, having all of its waves synchronized.
It is worth mentioning that plasmons are in fact wave-like movements of excited electrons on the surfaces of different metals. By connecting light to these oscillations, scientists managed to compress it further than usually, reports The Telegraph. More information on lasers and latest inventions you can find here at www.IfoNIAC.com, please check the links at the bottom of the story.
Professor Zhang, from the University of California at Berkeley said: "Plasmon lasers represent an exciting class of coherent light sources capable of extremely small confinement. This work can bridge the worlds of electronics and optics at truly molecular length scales." Their latest invention was described in the online version of the journal Nature. The scientist who co-authored the research, Dr Thomas Zentgraf, from the University's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centre, stated: "The advantages of optics over electronics are multifold. For example, devices will be more power efficient at the same time they offer increased speed or bandwidth."
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//22 Mar 18, 2012 03:11 PM | posted by:
obaid - great work.....
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//21 Sep 06, 2011 04:21 AM | posted by: rohit singh - this laser hw the wrk done.....
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//20 Jun 18, 2011 03:53 PM | posted by: Saurav Ansuman - its very good a round of plous
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//19 Jun 18, 2011 03:53 PM | posted by: Saurav Ansuman - its very good a round of plous
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//18 Apr 12, 2011 09:11 PM | posted by: gayathri madhira - great job............
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//17 Apr 02, 2011 09:06 PM | posted by: SHRUTI - ITS GR8...!!!!!
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//16 Mar 08, 2011 03:21 PM | posted by: sowmiya - excellent work
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//15 Feb 01, 2011 08:06 AM | posted by: hanibal smith - oolala
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//14 Jan 22, 2011 08:28 AM | posted by: Visakh - Scientists are the only creatures who do some useful things in this world....So encourage students to become scientists , so that they too do some useful things for this human world....
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//13 Nov 17, 2010 09:57 PM | posted by: Umair - outstanding achievement lead to grow well computer's technology
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//12 Oct 31, 2010 03:06 PM | posted by: mohit saini - i want more knowige
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//11 Sep 24, 2010 03:46 PM | posted by: kevin - they have no life.........do only research.....enjoy life yaar....thats willl not come with u...
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//10 Aug 29, 2010 04:08 PM | posted by: dk - ye yappi......................................
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//9 Jun 28, 2010 03:38 PM | posted by: PRETI - wowi nice invention
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//8 Jun 13, 2010 04:03 PM | posted by: deeps - nice
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//7 May 26, 2010 01:53 PM | posted by: sundaram - this is too bad
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//6 May 06, 2010 04:01 PM | posted by: Noname - nothing special in this technology....
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//5 Apr 27, 2010 12:36 PM | posted by: Vasantha Osmania Universi - Its a great one for even for science to investigate and manipulate DNA
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//4 Mar 26, 2010 02:52 PM | posted by: ekta - dis invention will halp a lot 2 humanmankind. it is gret
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//3 Feb 15, 2010 09:32 AM | posted by: dinu - wow!!!!
thts gr8...
happy 2 know abt it...? - 2 votes
//2 Feb 12, 2010 06:50 PM | posted by: santhosh - Oh...! tat is awesome techno.. Great..
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//1 Sep 01, 2009 09:07 AM | posted by:
alcotrazz [InfoWILD]
- OH! Finally! you're back! and I thought 'were the heck are the guys with all the great news?!' are you ok out there?
BTW, the laser thing - quite interesting... in a few decades were' gonna use some pretty advanced technology in everyday life ('pretty advanced' - that's for today, and 'pretty damn slow' - for even farther future)
