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Researchers at Stanford University have built a Ti:sapphire laser on a chip.
The prototype is four orders of magnitude smaller (10,000x) and three orders less expensive than any laser ever produced.
The new laser fits in a 0.5 mm square chip that is measured in square millimeters.
If the researchers can mass-produce them on wafers, potentially thousands could be squeezed on a disc.
The team is working on perfecting their chip-scale Ti:sapphire laser and on ways to mass-produce them, thousands at a time, on wafers.
Small-scale lasers might be integrated into more compact probes opening up new experimental avenues.
In ophthalmology, it might find new use with Nobel Prize -winning chirped pulse amplification in laser surgery.
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