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Friday, December 4, 2009

Tunable Terahertz Lasers Could Allow Airport Scanners to Chemically Analyze Substances


An MIT electrical engineer and colleagues have managed to tune a small but powerful laser capable of generating terahertz rays. That could someday lead to airport scanners capable of even better snooping than superheroes.


The laser in question is a quantum cascade laser, which came out of Bell Labs in 1994.

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