a device that produces a narrow and powerful stream of light that has many special uses in medicine, industry, etc.
doctors using a laser to perform delicate eye surgery
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Recent Examples of lasersFor optical networking, the primary constraint is indium phosphide, a specialty semiconductor that’s used to make the lasers that generate the light and the detectors that detect the light on either end of the fiber optic cable.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
24 July 2026 Quantum mechanics stayed trapped in physics departments for roughly 50 years before it got commercialized via lasers and semiconductors.—ArsTechnica,
23 July 2026 Ultra Well folks, the hot new thing in smartphones isn’t lasers, or air quality sensors, or even graphene batteries.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
23 July 2026 Combined, those more than 10,000 and counting satellites are equipped with over 25,000 lasers currently in operation in LEO to maintain the network's interconnectedness, according to a NASA update.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
21 July 2026 The researchers envision eventually incorporating tunable lasers and additional photonic components directly onto the chip, creating more complete terahertz systems in a compact format.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
19 July 2026 And then there’s the complex global supply chain of mirrors and lasers and rare-earth minerals that go into the chips used to train and run AI models.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
18 July 2026 Like the surprisingly complicated logistics of shooting lasers out of vaginas and, all the while, having to dissuade the Material Girl from getting in on the action.—
Chop Choppish Shop,
Air Mail,
18 July 2026 The modern aesthetics industry, long plagued by fillers, lasers, Botox, and the nips and tucks of aging skin, is sitting on the precipice of its next era.—
Amy Francombe,
Vogue,
17 July 2026