{"id":216170,"date":"2025-06-18T09:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/next-leap-in-mode-locked-lasers-tunable-pulse-duration-in-ultranarrow-bandwidth"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:11:23","slug":"next-leap-in-mode-locked-lasers-tunable-pulse-duration-in-ultranarrow-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/next-leap-in-mode-locked-lasers-tunable-pulse-duration-in-ultranarrow-bandwidth","title":{"rendered":"Next leap in mode-locked lasers: Tunable pulse duration in ultranarrow bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/next-leap-in-mode-locked-lasers-tunable-pulse-duration-in-ultranarrow-bandwidth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lasers have widespread applications as a light source in a variety of fields, including manufacturing, medicine, high-speed communications, electronics, and scientific research.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the demand for lasers with increased control over their output has grown significantly. In particular, ultranarrow <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/bandwidth\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bandwidth<\/a> mode-locked lasers, which can produce extremely short laser pulses (short bursts of light) ranging from picoseconds to nanoseconds, have received considerable attention. Such <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/short+laser+pulses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">short laser pulses<\/a> are extremely beneficial for many applications\u2014from diamond cutting to semiconductor manufacture. However, these applications can be further improved with the incorporation of lasers with tunable pulse duration.<\/p>\n<p>A laser works by reflecting light back and forth between a highly reflective and a selective reflective mirror inside a cavity, and then amplifying it using a material called the gain medium. Conventional continuous-wave lasers emit a continuous beam of light waves (modes) with different wavelengths and random phases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lasers have widespread applications as a light source in a variety of fields, including manufacturing, medicine, high-speed communications, electronics, and scientific research. In recent years, the demand for lasers with increased control over their output has grown significantly. In particular, ultranarrow bandwidth mode-locked lasers, which can produce extremely short laser pulses (short bursts of light) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216170","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=216170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}