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Fiber Laser Points to Woven 3-D Displays, Medical Tools

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 13, 2012 — A multidirectional fiber laser could herald flexible 3-D displays and medical tools that activate therapeutic compounds with bursts of light. Most light emitters, from candles to lightbulbs to computer screens, look the same from any angle. But the brightness of the new light source developed at MIT can be controllably varied for different viewers, opening the door to 3-D displays woven from flexible fibers that project different information to viewers’ left and right eyes. The new fiber also could enable medical devices that can be threaded into narrow openings to irradiate...Read full article

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    Published: March 2012
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