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New Nano-Laser Created
Many sources are reporting that researchers have created the world's smallest laser since the inception of lasers almost a half-century ago. Dubbed "spasers," as an acronym for "surface plasmon amplification by stimulated emission of radiation," their incredibly tiny size could become a critical component for future technologies like "nanophotonic" circuitry. "Such circuits will require a laser-light source, but current lasers can't be made small enough to integrate them into electronic chips. Now researchers have overcome this obstacle, harnessing clouds of electrons called 'surface plasmons,' instead of the photons that make up light, to create the tiny spasers."
... geneticists are now working feverishly to develop the world's first nano-shark.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Awesome! I can finally get this mobile emitter working again so I can get the hell out of sick bay.
Ze Atomic Device! It iz Ztolen!
Optical Writeable Readable Hard drives that are Giga-giga-bakillion-kazakcipaloo-bytes and are random access/seeking - they're coming.
All this technology and Slashdot's scripts still suck.
So do they split into three parallel beams, thus covering a wider area than a single beam could along? And do they do the whole sinusoidal-oscillation thing if combined with a Wave Beam?
But I think I'll wait for the Laser Shuffle.
I see about three revolutionary breakthroughs per day, three of which never go anywhere because of cost or something. This reminds me of those "water on mars," articles -- we've been "getting new compelling evidence for water on mars" for decades. So, really, I've started to lose interest. I'll be excited when it finally goes somewhere. Really, what gets my blood pumping is what I can see coming down the pipe -- 128gb flash drives, C++0xA, etc.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
It is a widely accepted term in the field, well known to certain physicists/chemists. But Google might help you learn something new.
Enter the following in the console:
apt-get sharkswithfreakinglasers
make laser
sudo intalllaser
At this point you will get a number of incomprehensible error messages.
Spend 18 hours of time searching google discovering that though there are many different instructions out there, nothing works.
Yes, they are; and writing bogus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmon Wikipedia entries about them. /frank
And the worms ate into his brain.
The tiny "pew pew pew" sounds? Hardly sounds fun to me.
Drivers are only available for minix
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
We have NO nano cats to use it with!
From the Wikipedia article:
"For plasmon-based electronics to be useful, an analog to the transistor, called a plasmonster, must be invented."
It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a plasmonster.
Couldn't read the articles because i don't have an account there. But the abstracts look interesting: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-30-13-1710 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/440892722-27397378/content~content=a911227137~db=all~jumptype=rss http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/EUM0000000004246 and there seem to be already patents on manufacturing these integrated optic curcuits: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/4400052/claims.html