Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Laser (IMAGE)

Brown University

Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Laser

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Colloidal quantum dots -- nanocrystals -- can produce lasers of many colors. Cuong Dang manipulates a green beam that pumps the nanocrystals with energy, in this case producing red laser light (at left).

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Mike Cohea/Brown University

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