{"id":242932,"date":"2026-08-20T05:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/3d-printed-ceramic-waveguide-lasers-could-surpass-the-power-of-glass-fiber-lasers-by-10-times"},"modified":"2026-08-20T05:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:23:28","slug":"3d-printed-ceramic-waveguide-lasers-could-surpass-the-power-of-glass-fiber-lasers-by-10-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/3d-printed-ceramic-waveguide-lasers-could-surpass-the-power-of-glass-fiber-lasers-by-10-times","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed ceramic waveguide lasers could surpass the power of glass fiber lasers by 10 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-ceramic-waveguide-lasers-could-surpass-the-power-of-glass-fiber-lasers-by-10-times2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of the ocean, optical fibers transmit telecommunications and internet data around the world. Waveguides make that feat possible by channeling and amplifying the light\u2014and therefore the data within\u2014over enormous distances.<\/p>\n<p>The technology goes beyond undersea cables. Waveguiding optics are among the most important advances in photonics since the invention of the laser. They are fundamental to the structure of glass fiber lasers, which are used for high-power national security applications like counter-drone laser systems and missile defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the bottom of the ocean, optical fibers transmit telecommunications and internet data around the world. Waveguides make that feat possible by channeling and amplifying the light\u2014and therefore the data within\u2014over enormous distances. The technology goes beyond undersea cables. Waveguiding optics are among the most important advances in photonics since the invention of the laser. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1488,418,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-drones","category-internet","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242932","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=242932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}