{"id":103471,"date":"2020-03-08T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T01:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/researchers-create-the-jimi-hendrix-of-lasers"},"modified":"2020-03-08T18:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T01:44:29","slug":"researchers-create-the-jimi-hendrix-of-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/researchers-create-the-jimi-hendrix-of-lasers","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create the Jimi Hendrix of lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-the-jimi-hendrix-of-lasers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photonics experts at Heriot-Watt university are hailing a breakthrough in laser research.<\/p>\n<p>They have come up with a new and relatively inexpensive way of creating a laser supercontinuum.<\/p>\n<p>They hope it could eventually have applications in bio-imaging and optical communications.<\/p>\n<p>Generation of a supercontinuum happens when intense laser light of a single colour travels through a material and then broadens into a spectrum of colours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photonics experts at Heriot-Watt university are hailing a breakthrough in laser research. They have come up with a new and relatively inexpensive way of creating a laser supercontinuum. They hope it could eventually have applications in bio-imaging and optical communications. Generation of a supercontinuum happens when intense laser light of a single colour travels through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}