vulcan laser

How cool a name is that?

Vulcan is the highest intensity (do you think they mean highest irradiance?) laser in the world and it’s in a British research laboratory.  Watch the video to learn more about it.

I wonder if Peter has read the comments under this video on the youtube site?

bang goes the theory – a homemade laser

We’ve just studied stimulated emission and how it can be used to make a laser.  I noticed the BBC1 schedule for this week says that Jem is going to make his own laser in this week’s programme.  BBC1 Scotland will show the programme on Friday 15th April at 20.30.

You should be able to watch it online before then – look for episode 5 of series 4 on iPlayer.  Here is the trailer.

Goldfinger’s laser – update

Just one comment so far that correctly identifies the bad physics in my post about Goldfinger’s laser.  If anyone else wants to leave a comment I will give you until the end of the Easter holidays to watch the clip and post your ideas.

I won’t publish any of your comments until then.