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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Physicists Dream Up the Antilaser

Wired Science - News for Your Neurons | Wired.com: "Fifty years after physicists invented the laser, ushering in everything from supermarket scanners to music CDs, scientists have conceived its opposite — the “antilaser.”

Unlike its more popular cousin, the antilaser is unlikely to take over the world. Still, it could be useful one day, for instance in new types of optical switches for computers."

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