The optical laser has grown to a $10 billion global technology market since it was invented in 1960, and has led to Nobel prizes for Art Ashkin for developing optical tweezing and Gerard Mourou and ...

Engineers have built the first fully solid-state phonon laser on a single chip, generating surface acoustic waves at about 1 gigahertz with unprecedented precision. The device, which uses a lithium ...

The microsphere, levitated by the dual beam optical tweezer (green), is driven by the active optomechanical system (red) to generate nonlinear phonon lasers (coloured waves). Meanwhile, the injected ...

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