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COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 16, 2011 — Borrowing from modern telescope design, researchers have proposed a way to concentrate sunlight to boost laser efficiency. Researchers at the Scientific and Production Association in Uzbekistan said the new laser would convert 35 percent of the sun’s energy into a laser light, providing a considerable increase in the maximum power produced by current-day solar-pumped lasers, which typically achieve only 1 to 2 percent efficiency. The new solar lasers would concentrate light with a small parabolic mirror 1 m in diameter that has a focal spot approximately 2 to 3 cm in diameter. The...Read full article

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    Published: September 2011
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    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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