about the laser source: a while ago i listened to a public lecture about lasers as surface waves on chips.
They developed a nanostructure on a chip, and if you shine laserlight onto it from above it turns part of it into a surface-wave of laserlight on the chip. The lecture was in Garching, where the max planck institute is also located, so it might have been one of the quantum optics guys that did the lecture, or someone from a nanotechnology institute there.
the question from the girl about how long it takes until she can have one in her handbag is really quite scary.
There is a different question with a similar answer: How long until its weaponized, not just for big battleships but also infantry?
kurtilein3 2 months ago
about the laser source: a while ago i listened to a public lecture about lasers as surface waves on chips.
They developed a nanostructure on a chip, and if you shine laserlight onto it from above it turns part of it into a surface-wave of laserlight on the chip. The lecture was in Garching, where the max planck institute is also located, so it might have been one of the quantum optics guys that did the lecture, or someone from a nanotechnology institute there.
kurtilein3 2 months ago
Most entertaining physics lecture ever!
Great accelerator science too.
Also, was that Michio Kaku at the end? I'm watching for Chris on CNN....
jl2718 8 months ago