{"id":124807,"date":"2021-07-11T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T22:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/recycling-lost-energy-quantum-laser-turns-energy-loss-into-gain"},"modified":"2021-07-11T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T22:22:17","slug":"recycling-lost-energy-quantum-laser-turns-energy-loss-into-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/recycling-lost-energy-quantum-laser-turns-energy-loss-into-gain","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Lost Energy: Quantum Laser Turns Energy Loss Into Gain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/recycling-lost-energy-quantum-laser-turns-energy-loss-into-gain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new laser that generates quantum particles can recycle lost energy for highly efficient, low threshold laser applications.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at KAIST have fabricated a laser system that generates highly interactive quantum particles at room temperature. Their findings, published in the journal <em>Nature Photonics<\/em>, could lead to a single microcavity laser system that requires lower threshold energy as its energy loss increases.<\/p>\n<p>The system, developed by KAIST physicist Yong-Hoon Cho and colleagues, involves shining light through a single hexagonal-shaped microcavity treated with a loss-modulated silicon nitride substrate. The system design leads to the generation of a polariton laser at room temperature, which is exciting because this usually requires cryogenic temperatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new laser that generates quantum particles can recycle lost energy for highly efficient, low threshold laser applications. Scientists at KAIST have fabricated a laser system that generates highly interactive quantum particles at room temperature. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Photonics, could lead to a single microcavity laser system that requires lower threshold [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124807","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=124807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}