A New Instrument for the Laser Orchestra
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 8 Story 3 - 9/2/2010

A terahertz tunable laser

In this artistic representation, the laser is the yellow wire, which is mounted on the grey support block. The electromagnetic field inside the laser reaches beyond the transversal dimensions of the wire, which makes it possible to influence the lasing frequency by moving objects close to the wire.
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A terahertz tunable laser. In this artistic representation, the laser is the yellow wire, which is mounted on the grey support block. The electromagnetic field inside the laser reaches beyond the transversal dimensions of the wire, which makes it possible to influence the lasing frequency by moving objects close to the wire.