Lasers have revolutionized various industries and devices, from communication to manufacturing and health care.– Lasers produce narrow beams of light that interact with materials on a nanoscale, emitting a wave of light called a plasmon.– Yu Yao, an associate professor of electrical engineering, has developed a method to detect optimal target locations for lasers, improving time and energy usage.– Yao and her research team have designed a faster and more energy-efficient nanoscale laser component called the graphene-plasmonic hybrid metastructure saturable absorber (GPSMA).– GPSMA has potential applications in communication, information processing, spectroscopy, and biomedical industries, enhancing speed, efficiency, and To tie it all together performance in data transmission and imaging technologies.
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