From six-foot water-cooled lasers to a tiny light engine · Proposed air date:
John Ambrosio remembers early display lasers that were roughly six feet long, required major electrical power and water cooling, then explains how semiconductor materials and optical engineering reduced the system to a box only inches across. Dr. Dave uses the contrast to make a difficult engineering advance understandable to a general audience.
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