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Eager_Igraine  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-11-21 11:55:52
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16925088


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posted: The team fabricated a number of the lasers - just 200 millionths of a millimetre high - with a metal rod at their centres, surrounded by a mix of semiconductor materials. They put energy into the tiny lasers using a much larger laboratory laser.


They found that the tiny lasers were able to harness all that energy, focusing it into laser beams of colours that are used in the telecommunications industry - all switched on with no threshold.

 

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Aerlinthian  4 stars
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Registered: 2001-5-7 23:53:38
Hmm, I wonder if this tech would be EMP proof.
theredkay1  3 stars
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Registered: 2008-5-16 10:37:09
now we just need tiny sharks
Coriolus  3 stars
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Registered: 2002-5-17 06:20:48

 

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sweeny_comodore  4 stars
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Registered: 2007-8-23 18:47:04
Aerlinthian posted:

Hmm, I wonder if this tech would be EMP proof.



yes but its not smoke and debris proof

 

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