{"id":216564,"date":"2025-06-25T02:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/affordable-laser-could-be-mass-produced-for-use-in-self-driving-cars-and-fiber-optics"},"modified":"2025-06-25T02:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T07:18:55","slug":"affordable-laser-could-be-mass-produced-for-use-in-self-driving-cars-and-fiber-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/affordable-laser-could-be-mass-produced-for-use-in-self-driving-cars-and-fiber-optics","title":{"rendered":"Affordable laser could be mass-produced for use in self-driving cars and fiber optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/affordable-laser-could-be-mass-produced-for-use-in-self-driving-cars-and-fiber-optics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laser technology is used in many areas, where precise measurements are required and in communication. This means that they are important for everything from self-driving cars to the fiber optic internet and for detecting gases in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a research group has come up with a new type of laser that solves several problems associated with current-day lasers. The group is led by Associate Professor Johann Riemensberger at NTNU\u2019s Department of Electronic Systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur results can give us a new type of laser that is both fast, relatively cheap, powerful and easy to use,\u201d says Riemensberger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laser technology is used in many areas, where precise measurements are required and in communication. This means that they are important for everything from self-driving cars to the fiber optic internet and for detecting gases in the air. Now, a research group has come up with a new type of laser that solves several problems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216564","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=216564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}