The sizes on the screen were larger than would be projected by aircraft at such a distance; image sizes were matched between the
microlaser projector and the CRT device.
While the
microLaser Turbo printers have the same popular features as Texas Instrument's other microLasers--including a small footprint, industry- standard emulations and advanced paper handling--they offer enhancements such as intelligent switching between interfaces and emulations without requiring user intervention.
Now, researchers have developed a
microlaser that produces light from interactions between a mirrored cavity and atoms passing through that cavity one at a time.
Constructed from disks only 5 micrometers in diameter and mounted in air on a pedestal, this double-decker
microlaser is considerably smaller than the tiny semiconductor lasers that scan discs in compact-disc players.
Resembling a miniature thumbtack, the novel
microlaser consists of a layered disk only 400 or so atoms thick mounted on a slender pedestal.
"The optoelectronic tweezers and freeze-drying technique can be used to not only assemble solder beads, but also to assemble a broad range of objects such as semiconductor nanowires, carbon nanotubes,
microlasers and microLEDs," said Zhang.
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Meanwhile, according to Miriam Serena Vitiello, group leader of Terahertz Photonics Group, future goals are to push performance in the ultra-fast detection realm, explore the feasibility of single photon detection by using novel architectures and material choices, develop compact focal plane arrays and to integrate on-chip the nanowire detectors with THz quantum cascade
microlasers.
He and his colleagues were able to reliably distinguish ring-stage red blood cells (RBCs) from uninfected RBCs "despite the very small size of hemozoin, 50-100 nm." "If this technology can be made cheap and field deployable," says Dvorin, "I think that it might really change the field of malaria diagnostics." That technology depends on
microlasers that at this point are costlier than the RAM components.