How can anyone persuade an array of lasers to emit a single-mode coherent beam? was the question being asked by a team of US researchers. “One seemingly straightforward method to achieve a high-power single-mode laser is to couple multiple identical single-mode lasers together to form a laser array,” said University of Pennsylvania scientist Liang Feng. ...

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