{"id":89610,"date":"2019-04-17T00:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T07:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-phonon-laser-could-lead-to-breakthroughs-in-sensing-and-information-processing"},"modified":"2019-04-17T00:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T07:42:46","slug":"new-phonon-laser-could-lead-to-breakthroughs-in-sensing-and-information-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-phonon-laser-could-lead-to-breakthroughs-in-sensing-and-information-processing","title":{"rendered":"New phonon laser could lead to breakthroughs in sensing and information processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-phonon-laser-could-lead-to-breakthroughs-in-sensing-and-information-processing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The optical laser has grown to a $10 billion global technology market since it was invented in 1960, and has led to Nobel prizes for Art Ashkin for developing optical tweezing and Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland for work with pulsed lasers. Now a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher has teamed up with experts at the University of Rochester to create a different kind of laser\u2014a laser for sound, using the optical tweezer technique invented by Ashkin.<\/p>\n<p>In the newest issue of <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>, the researchers propose and demonstrate a phonon <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser<\/a> using an optically levitated nanoparticle. A phonon is a quantum of energy associated with a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sound+wave\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sound wave<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+tweezers\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical tweezers<\/a> test the limits of quantum effects in isolation and eliminates physical disturbances from the surrounding environment. The researchers studied the mechanical vibrations of the nanoparticle, which is levitated against gravity by the force of radiation at the focus of an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+laser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical laser<\/a> beam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeasuring the position of the nanoparticle by detecting the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> it scatters, and feeding that information back into the tweezer beam allows us to create a laser-like situation,\u201d said Mishkat Bhattacharya, associate professor of physics at RIT and a theoretical quantum optics researcher. \u201cThe mechanical vibrations become intense and fall into perfect sync, just like the electromagnetic waves emerging from an optical laser.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-phonon-laser-breakthroughs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The optical laser has grown to a $10 billion global technology market since it was invented in 1960, and has led to Nobel prizes for Art Ashkin for developing optical tweezing and Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland for work with pulsed lasers. Now a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher has teamed up with experts at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89610","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}