{"id":110477,"date":"2020-07-25T18:26:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T01:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/project-creates-more-powerful-versatile-ultrafast-laser-pulse"},"modified":"2020-07-25T18:26:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T01:26:57","slug":"project-creates-more-powerful-versatile-ultrafast-laser-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/project-creates-more-powerful-versatile-ultrafast-laser-pulse","title":{"rendered":"Project creates more powerful, versatile ultrafast laser pulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/project-creates-more-powerful-versatile-ultrafast-laser-pulse2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Rochester researchers are setting a new standard when it comes to producing ultrafast laser pulses over a broader range of wavelengths than traditional laser sources.<\/p>\n<p>In work published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, William Renninger, an assistant professor of optics, along with members of his lab, describe a new device, called the \u201cstretched-pulse soliton Kerr resonator,\u201d that enhances the performance of ultrafast laser pulses. The work has important implications for a range of engineering and biomedical applications, including spectroscopy, frequency synthesis, distance ranging, pulse generation, and others.<\/p>\n<p>The device creates an ultrafast laser pulse\u2014on the order of femtoseconds, or one quadrillionth of a second\u2014that\u2019s freed from the physical limits endemic to sources of laser light\u2014what laser scientists call laser gain\u2014and the limits of the sources\u2019 wavelengths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Rochester researchers are setting a new standard when it comes to producing ultrafast laser pulses over a broader range of wavelengths than traditional laser sources. In work published in Physical Review Letters, William Renninger, an assistant professor of optics, along with members of his lab, describe a new device, called the \u201cstretched-pulse soliton [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110477","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}