laser. Today, all such devices operating at frequencies higher than microwaves (approximately above 300 GHz) are called lasers (e.g. infrared lasers,...

are lasers! Lasers are revolutionary. Lasers are the future. On January 4, 2011, Billboard revealed two guest appearances on Fiasco's album Lasers. The...

Laser radiation safety is the safe design, use and implementation of lasers to minimize the risk of laser accidents, especially those involving eye injuries...

powering most diode lasers, this class of lasers is sometimes termed injection lasers, or injection laser diodes (ILD). As diode lasers are semiconductor...

Nd:YAG laser is used where very high power is needed and for boring and engraving. Both CO2 and Nd/Nd:YAG lasers can be used for welding. CO2 lasers are...

A laser weapon is a type of directed-energy weapon that uses lasers to inflict damage. Whether they will be deployed as practical, high-performance military...

near 946, 1120, 1320, and 1440 nm. Nd:YAG lasers operate in both pulsed and continuous mode. Pulsed Nd:YAG lasers are typically operated in the so-called...

as gain media for a fiber laser.[citation needed] An advantage of fiber lasers over other types of lasers is that the laser light is both generated and...

visible spectrum as blue or violet. Blue lasers can be produced by: direct, inorganic diode semiconductor lasers based on quantum wells of gallium(III)...

still one of the most useful types of laser. Carbon-dioxide lasers are the highest-power continuous-wave lasers that are currently available. They are...

ion laser is a gas laser that uses an ionized gas as its lasing medium. Like other gas lasers, ion lasers feature a sealed cavity containing the laser medium...

infrared at 1150 nm, and were the first gas lasers and the first lasers with continuous wave output. However, a laser that operated at visible wavelengths was...

(1999). Handbook of laser wavelengths. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-3508-2. Costela, A.; et al. (2009). "Medical applications of dye lasers". In Duarte, F....

materials. Lasers have been used aboard spacecraft such as in the Cassini-Huygens mission. In astronomy, lasers have been used to create artificial laser guide...

decade later. Ruby lasers were used mainly in research. The ruby laser was the first laser used to optically pump tunable dye lasers and is particularly...

1.15 micrometres. Gas lasers using many gases have been built and used for many purposes. Carbon dioxide lasers, or CO2 lasers can emit hundreds of kilowatts...

state, dye lasers are also available as solid state dye lasers (SSDL). These SSDL lasers use dye-doped organic matrices as gain medium. A dye laser uses a...

type of laser, but especially the following: CO2 lasers, used to cut, vaporize, ablate, and photocoagulate soft tissue. diode lasers dye lasers excimer...

lasers are excellent cutters, but provide minimal hemostasis. Diode lasers (hot tip) provide excellent hemostasis, but are slow cutters. CO2 lasers are...

such high-powered lasers. Despite the disclaimers, such lasers are frequently sold in packaging resembling that for laser pointers. Lasers of this type may...

directed energy of lasers is often associated with heating materials, e.g. laser cutting, so it can be counterintuitive that laser cooling often results...

with diode laser-based treatment. Hair reduction after six months was reported as 68.75% for alexandrite lasers, 71.71% for diode lasers, and 66.96%...

housing that contains lasers, mirrors, galvanometer scanners, and other optical components. A laser projector may contain one laser light source for single-color...

dental lasers are in use with different wavelengths and these mean they are better suited for different applications. Diode lasers Carbon dioxide lasers Nd:YAG...

distributed-feedback lasers have typical linewidths on the order of 1 kHz. The laser linewidth from stabilized low-power continuous-wave lasers can be very narrow...

flashlamps. Diode lasers pump solid state lasers and liquid dye lasers. A ring laser design is often used, especially in dye lasers. The ring laser uses three...

largely used by Communities: there are "with lasers" communities for everything (one notable exception being "Lasers with Chuck Norris" instead of the opposite...

wave (CW) lasers. The lasing medium in some dye lasers and vibronic solid-state lasers produces optical gain over a wide bandwidth, making a laser possible...

A series of industrial lasers were developed at XMR, Inc in Santa Clara, California between 1980 and 1988. Most of the lasers produced were XeCl, and...

low-level (low-power) lasers or light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to the surface of the body. Whereas high-power lasers are used in laser medicine to cut or destroy...