{"id":220170,"date":"2025-08-15T04:21:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/energy-efficient-ultracompact-laser-reduces-light-loss-in-all-directions"},"modified":"2025-08-15T04:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:21:58","slug":"energy-efficient-ultracompact-laser-reduces-light-loss-in-all-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/energy-efficient-ultracompact-laser-reduces-light-loss-in-all-directions","title":{"rendered":"Energy-efficient ultracompact laser reduces light loss in all directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/energy-efficient-ultracompact-laser-reduces-light-loss-in-all-directions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a new type of ultracompact laser that is more energy efficient and consumes less power.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller than a grain of sand, the micrometer-sized laser incorporates a special design that reduces light leakage. Minimizing light loss means less energy is required to operate the laser compared to other highly compact lasers.<\/p>\n<p>The laser emits light in the terahertz region (30 \u03bcm\u20143 mm), a 6G communications frequency, and could pave the way for high-speed wireless communication of the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a new type of ultracompact laser that is more energy efficient and consumes less power. Smaller than a grain of sand, the micrometer-sized laser incorporates a special design that reduces light leakage. Minimizing light loss means less energy is required [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220170","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=220170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}