{"id":238267,"date":"2026-06-03T18:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-holy-grail-of-integrated-photonics-epfl-researchers-reveal-tiny-yet-powerful-ultrafast-laser-on-a-chip"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:08:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:08:50","slug":"a-holy-grail-of-integrated-photonics-epfl-researchers-reveal-tiny-yet-powerful-ultrafast-laser-on-a-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/a-holy-grail-of-integrated-photonics-epfl-researchers-reveal-tiny-yet-powerful-ultrafast-laser-on-a-chip","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Holy Grail of Integrated Photonics\u201d: EPFL Researchers Reveal Tiny-Yet-Powerful Ultrafast Laser on a Chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-holy-grail-of-integrated-photonics-epfl-researchers-reveal-tiny-yet-powerful-ultrafast-laser-on-a-chip.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have revealed a downscaled, lab-sized, high-energy ultrafast laser to the size of a matchhead, enabling futuristic technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have revealed a downscaled, lab-sized, high-energy ultrafast laser to the size of a matchhead, enabling futuristic technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238267","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}