{"id":405842,"date":"2019-10-31T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=405842"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:46:47","slug":"wired-video-lasers-are-everywhere-405842","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wired-video-lasers-are-everywhere-405842\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lasers are everywhere\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

When lasers were first demonstrated in 1960, many people speculated about their potential applications. Now, \u201clasers are everywhere,\u201d says Donna Strickland \u201989 (PhD)<\/a>. They are used to study gravity and black holes, to manufacture parts in cell phones, and to conduct medical procedures like Lasik eye surgery.<\/p>\n

In a video for WIRED<\/a><\/em>, Strickland, a professor of physics at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, and a 2018 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics<\/a>, explains the inner-workings and importance of lasers to five different people: a child, a teenager, a college student, a graduate student, and, finally, to an expert. That expert is Mike Campbell, director of the University of Rochester\u2019s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE).<\/a><\/p>\n

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