The future looks bright for high-power semiconductor lasers | Laser Focus World

Applications of high-power diode lasers will grow as performance and reliability improve and new techniques enhance their brightness.

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The main component of the cathodoluminescent lamp from Russian researchers includes the cathode modulator unit (1), cathode (2), modulator (3), emitted electrons (4), phosphor (5), aluminum mirror serving as anode (6), anode output (7), and glass vacuum tube (8).

Cathodoluminescent lamps rival LEDs without using rare earths

A diagram shows NIST’s ion trap used for reversible “quantum squeezing” to amplify and measure ion motion. The ion (white ball) is confined 30 microns above the trap surface by voltages applied to the eight gold electrodes and the two red electrodes. Squeezing--that reduces the uncertainty of motion measurements--is achieved by applying a specific signal to the red electrodes. The ion is moved by applying another type of signal to one of the gold electrodes. Then the squeezing is reversed, and the blue electrodes generate magnetic fields used to decode the amplified motion measurements.

NIST quantum squeezing and amplification technique advances quantum computing

An era ends

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Blue laser module technology from SLD Laser debuts