{"id":81700,"date":"2018-08-13T18:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T01:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/terahertz-technology-creates-new-insight-into-how-semiconductor-lasers-work"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T01:22:55","slug":"terahertz-technology-creates-new-insight-into-how-semiconductor-lasers-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/terahertz-technology-creates-new-insight-into-how-semiconductor-lasers-work","title":{"rendered":"Terahertz technology creates new insight into how semiconductor lasers work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/terahertz-technology-creates-new-insight-into-how-semiconductor-lasers-work2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lasers are widely used as high power sources of light operating at a specific frequency. But how does this frequency get selected when a laser is turned on, and how quickly?<\/p>\n<p>Pioneering engineers working with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/terahertz\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">terahertz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/frequency\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">frequency<\/a> technology have been researching how individual frequencies are selected when a laser is turned on, and how quickly the selection is made.<\/p>\n<p>The development of specific terahertz equipment has allowed them to investigate this process for the first time. Their results, published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, will underpin the future development of semiconductor lasers, including those used in public and private sector-owned telecommunications systems.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-08-terahertz-technology-insight-semiconductor-lasers.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;08-terahertz-technology-insig...asers.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lasers are widely used as high power sources of light operating at a specific frequency. But how does this frequency get selected when a laser is turned on, and how quickly? Pioneering engineers working with terahertz frequency technology have been researching how individual frequencies are selected when a laser is turned on, and how quickly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81700","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=81700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}