World's first anti-laser demonstrated
In the anti-laser, incoming light waves are trapped in a cavity where they bounce back and forth until they are eventually absorbed (Image: Yidong Chong/Yale University)
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Much to the distaste of James Bond villains everywhere, scientists from Yale University recently demonstrated not a new, more powerful type of laser, but actually its opposite – the world’s first anti-laser. The device receives incoming beams of light, which interfere with one another in such a way as to cancel each other out. It could apparently have valuable applications in a number of technologies, such as optical computing and radiology.
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