{"id":35845,"date":"2017-04-03T07:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-star-wars-superlaser-may-no-longer-be-sci-fi"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:40:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:40:36","slug":"the-star-wars-superlaser-may-no-longer-be-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-star-wars-superlaser-may-no-longer-be-sci-fi","title":{"rendered":"The Star Wars \u2018superlaser\u2019 may no longer be sci-fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-star-wars-superlaser-may-no-longer-be-sci-fi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a world-leading study researchers at Macquarie University have proven a method for multiplying laser power using diamond, demonstrating that a laser similar to the <i>Star Wars<\/i> \u2018superlaser\u2019 may no longer remain in science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in Laser and Photonics Reviews demonstrates a concept \u2013 reminiscent of the <i>Star Wars<\/i> Death Star sci-fi <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser<\/a> \u2013 where the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power<\/a> of multiple laser beams is transferred into a single intense output <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/beam\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">beam<\/a> that can be directed to the intended target.<\/p>\n<p>This new laser development has real-world and high-stakes applications in which high power lasers are seen as a key tool in areas such as defence.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-04-star-wars-superlaser-longer-sci-fi.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;04-star-wars-superlaser-longer-sci-fi.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world-leading study researchers at Macquarie University have proven a method for multiplying laser power using diamond, demonstrating that a laser similar to the Star Wars \u2018superlaser\u2019 may no longer remain in science fiction. The research, published in Laser and Photonics Reviews demonstrates a concept \u2013 reminiscent of the Star Wars Death Star sci-fi [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35845","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48276,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35845\/revisions\/48276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}