A laser is a machine that makes an amplified, single-color source of light. It uses special gases, liquids, or crystals to make the light with only a...

A free-electron laser, or FEL, is a laser that produces a very bright beam of light. It is basically a super flashlight. It shares the same optical properties...

A laser printer is a printer for computers. It uses laser or LED-technology to get small particles of toner from a cartridge onto paper. Very often, this...

A laser pointer (or laser pen) is a small device that shines a low-powered laser light. The pointer is usually powered by a battery. It contains a laser...

Dieter Laser (17 February 1942 – 29 February 2020) was a German actor. He is known to foreign audiences for his roles as Mantrid in Lexx, Prof. Otto Blaettchen...

Laser tag is a recreational shooting sport using light and light-sensing devices. Players shoot fake guns that fire an LED at a vest that detects the...

The Laser Kiwi flag (originally Fire the Lazar) is a flag made by Lucy Gray in 2015 for the 2015–2016 New Zealand flag referendums. Lucy Gray, a former...

Laser cooling is a technique used to make atoms extremely cold by using laser light. It works by shining lasers at atoms in a way that slows them down...

The VTech Laser 200 was a 1983 computer by VTech, it is based on a Z80A CPU at 3.58 MHz. It has a Motorola 6847 GPU with 128x192 with 4 colors and 256x192...

The Ford Laser was a car sold by Ford Motor Company between 1981 and 2003. It was offered in four bodystyles; a three-door hatchback, five-door hatchback...

Laser Clay Shooting System is a 1973 arcade game developed by Nintendo and the first video game developed by Nintendo Plunkett, Luke (2017-06-22). "Laser...

both developed chirped pulse amplification. This is useful in laser micromachining, laser surgery, medicine, and in science. She is an associate professor...

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space probe by the European Space Agency The LISA mission is made to find gravitational waves...

the original on 2019-01-05. Retrieved 2013-08-13. "LaserFest – the 50th anniversary of the first laser" McGloin, David; Reid, J.P. (February 1, 2010). "Forty...

of the laser with Charles Townes. He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Kai Siegbahn for his work using lasers to determine...

DVD. To play Laserdisc movies, a LaserDisc player is needed. LaserDisc was also known by the names DiscoVision and LaserVision. Laserdisc was first produced...

femtoseconds. His Nobel award was for using laser technology to measure extremely fast chemical reactions. The laser technology showed how molecules changed...

of laser fusion in 1961 and the discovery of the principle of laser isotope separation. All contributions are outlined in his book « High Power Laser Interactions :...

the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique"...

is treated with scatter laser surgery, which helps to shrink the abnormal blood vessels. During the surgery 1,000 to 2,000 laser burns are placed in the...

Holography is a way of making three-dimensional picture with a laser. It allows the holographer to make a more exact image than with photography. The...

patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Nikolay Basov...

EKSPLA is a laser manufacturing company based in Lithuania. They specialize in producing lasers, laser systems, and other photonics components. The company...

general use. In the mid-1980s, the popularity of laser discs broke out and became a big hit. When using laser discs, the lyrics appear on the screen, so you...

damages the target with focused energy. Directed-energy weapons could use lasers, microwaves, or particle beams. Directed-energy weapons can be used against...

optical drive is a type of disk drive. The drive uses a light called a laser in order to read or write data to a disk. Depending on the type of drive...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics observatory which detects cosmic gravitational waves co-founded...

DVD, DVD±R, DVD±RW, and DVD-RAM used a red laser to read and write data. The new format used a blu laser instead. This is where the name is from. DVD...

with Arthur Schawlow and Kai Siegbahn. He won the prize for his works in laser spectroscopy. Bloembergen was born in Dordrecht, Netherlands. He studied...

alternative or deleted scenes and commentaries. Like CDs, DVDs are read with a laser. The DVD can have one or two sides, and one or two layers of data per side;...

An optical gain medium (also called an active laser medium) can make light stronger. In general, gain media must be powered by another energy source in...

misreading of collineare, "to direct in a straight line". Laser light from crystal and some gas lasers is highly collimated because it is formed in an optical...

Plotters are large format inkjet printers, or printers that use special pens. Laser printers transfer tiny particles of toner onto the paper. Most do not print...

Yoshida, T. (1988). "Protein and Polymer Analyses up to m/z 100 000 by Laser Ionization Time-of flight Mass Spectrometry". Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom...

a high-power laser. The laser bleaches the recorded areas, creating reflective areas that can then be played back with a low-power laser. A DVD-R can...

2012 Summer Olympics. Pavlos Kontides earned a silver medal in the men's laser sailing event. They almost won a medal in the 2008 Olympics when Antonis...

often contains a laser pointer. A distinguishing feature among the models offered is the color of the laser. For presentations green laser is more visible...

measuring distances by using a laser on a target and measuring its reflection with a sensor. After the invention of laser, first tool similar to a lidar...

pressure. Other ways include ultra sound, laser light, or microwaves. Altimeters in planes often use lasers or microwaves. A Dictionary of Aviation, David...

waves. A CD player has a laser and an optical sensor. A CD has tracks and bumps on the tracks. The CD player passes a laser beam along the track of the...

device still, and a good laser such as the kind that is used by workmen to "draw" straight lines when they are building. The laser is supported so it can...

Korea Research Foundation, later National Research Foundation of Korea Krypton fluoride, KrF, a short-lived chemical compound KrF laser, a kind of laser...

with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. He worked as a researcher at the École normale...

code from about 3 to 9 inches away and generally costs less than a laser scanner. A laser scanner, either hand-held or stationary, does not have to be close...

researched nuclear physics, quantum optics, and laser physics. He was known as an important scientist of laser spectroscopy. He was a professor at Hamburg...

the speed of modern aircraft, some surface ships are being designed with laser weapons. In the Russian invasion of Ukraine ground-to-air missiles are used...

of Queensland. She has led pioneering work in atom optics, laser micromanipulation, laser physics, linear and nonlinear high resolution spectroscopy,...

relocated to Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec and became the Saint-Hyacinthe Laser. The owners of the Laser transferred the team to Rouyn-Noranda and renamed the team the...

Berkeley, that cannot be perceived with the naked eye. "Researchers used lasers to create stimulation in individual cone cells in the retina — leading to...

Graal can be: Holy Grail or "Graal" in older forms A style of glassblowing Graal-Müritz, a seaside health resort GRenoble Anneau Accelerateur Laser...