Timeline for Is it possible to make a laser by sending sunlight through an optical apparatus?
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| Jan 19, 2020 at 6:09 | comment | added | Jagerber48 | You may be interested in "How many principles does it take to change a light bulb . . . into a laser?": arxiv.org/pdf/1510.04805.pdf | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 11:09 | comment | added | Bert Barrois | There is no obvious reason why some components of sunlight couldn't be used to pump a laser (i.e., to achieve a population inversion). | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 9:35 | answer | added | NullAchtFuffZehn | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 4:54 | history | edited | Qmechanic♦ |
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| Apr 6, 2018 at 4:12 | answer | added | S. McGrew | timeline score: 4 | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 1:49 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Since photons from the sun are not coherent, there is no mechanism to turn some slice of the spectrum into a laser. At the worst, use a solar panel to power a laser, although you might think that is cheating... Splitting the spectrum requires only a prism. | |
| Apr 6, 2018 at 1:11 | history | edited | Mark Eichenlaub | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2018 at 1:10 | history | edited | pentane | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 6, 2018 at 1:05 | history | asked | H.w | CC BY-SA 3.0 |