Novel laser produces random mid-infrared light for improved imaging applications
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 11:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Most lasers produce coherent light, meaning that the light waves are perfectly synchronized with each other. Spatially coherent waves, however, can interfere with one another and produce speckles in an image. With this in mind, scientists are turning to so-called random lasers, which not only show promise for applications such as biological and environmental imaging, but also mimic natural, disordered scattering from objects such as clouds.