{"id":9544,"date":"2013-03-18T14:53:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2013-03-18T14:53:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:53:32","slug":"scientists-build-lasers-out-of-sound-call-them-phasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9544","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Build Lasers Out of Sound, Call Them Phasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sound lasers work on a similar principle. For Mahboob and his team\u2019s phaser, a mechanical oscillator jiggles and excites a bunch of phonons, which relax and release their energy back into the device. The confined energy causes the phaser to vibrate at its fundamental frequency but with at a very narrow wavelength. The sound laser produces phonons at 170 kilohertz, far above human hearing range, which peters out around 20 kilohertz. The entire device is etched onto an integrated circuit that\u2019s about 1 cm by 0.5 cm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/03\/sound-lasers-phasers\/\">Pew Pew! Scientists Build Lasers Out of Sound, Call Them Phasers | Wired Science | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sound lasers work on a similar principle. For Mahboob and his team\u2019s phaser, a mechanical oscillator jiggles and excites a bunch of phonons, which relax and release their energy back into the device. The confined energy causes the phaser to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[100,1026],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-interesting-research","tag-lasers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}