{"id":199712,"date":"2024-11-19T03:28:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T09:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/team-creates-worlds-first-tunable-wavelength-blue-semiconductor-laser"},"modified":"2024-11-19T03:28:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T09:28:31","slug":"team-creates-worlds-first-tunable-wavelength-blue-semiconductor-laser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/team-creates-worlds-first-tunable-wavelength-blue-semiconductor-laser","title":{"rendered":"Team creates world\u2019s first tunable-wavelength blue semiconductor laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-creates-worlds-first-tunable-wavelength-blue-semiconductor-laser2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers at Osaka University have created the world\u2019s first compact, tunable-wavelength blue semiconductor laser, a significant advancement for far-ultraviolet light technology with promising applications in sterilization and disinfection.<\/p>\n<p>This innovative laser employs a specially-designed periodically slotted structure in nitride semiconductors, making possible a blue wavelength laser that is both practical and adaptable for various disinfection technologies. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.35848\/1882-0786\/ad66ab\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Applied Physics Express.<\/p>\n<p>The research team had previously demonstrated second-harmonic generation at wavelengths below 230 nm by using transverse quasi-phase-matching devices crafted from aluminum nitride and vertical microcavity wavelength conversion devices incorporating SrB<sub>4<\/sub>O<sub>7<\/sub> nonlinear optical crystals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, researchers at Osaka University have created the world\u2019s first compact, tunable-wavelength blue semiconductor laser, a significant advancement for far-ultraviolet light technology with promising applications in sterilization and disinfection. This innovative laser employs a specially-designed periodically slotted structure in nitride semiconductors, making possible a blue wavelength laser that is both practical and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199712","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}