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Mar 8, 2020

Researchers create the Jimi Hendrix of lasers

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Photonics experts at Heriot-Watt university are hailing a breakthrough in laser research.

They have come up with a new and relatively inexpensive way of creating a laser supercontinuum.

They hope it could eventually have applications in bio-imaging and optical communications.

Generation of a supercontinuum happens when intense laser light of a single colour travels through a material and then broadens into a spectrum of colours.

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