Laser
topic on 7 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
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Hurlston: Lasers will be necessary to build an internet in space
“If you can put a laser in the ocean and transmit across the Pacific, you can certainly put lasers in space and create this reality of an internet in space, right? It's going to be necessary.”
Von Munch: Pacific Fusion avoids laser energy losses via direct pulsed current
“So instead of using a capacitor bank to charge a laser and a laser to drive a target, we use a capacitor bank to make a large electrical current. That electric current squishes the target, and that's a whole lot more efficient because you don't have this lossy…”
Inter-satellite laser links create faster networks than terrestrial fiber-optic data centers
“So if you can link these satellites in space together using lasers, you actually have a faster and more coherent network than in a data center on earth.”
Laser cell-sorting technology accelerates processing speeds by orders of magnitude
“So we have a whole stack of technologies that the technology you mentioned is sort of the accelerator to be able to broaden it out to really huge numbers of patients, where we're basically using lasers and light to move cells around and sort them, and, That ca…”
Naam: Laser space solar is BS because lasers cannot penetrate clouds
“Lasers are BS, because lasers don't penetrate clouds and rain, so why would you do it?”
Hsu: Inefficient laser heating puts inertial fusion further from wall-plug gain
“Even though they, they're both at the point of 70% of the input energy, the efficiency of tokamak heating is much higher than the efficiency of the laser. So you have a longer ways to go to get true wall plug gain, which is ultimately what you need.”
Wei Lowe: Cameras alone cannot provide high-precision depth perception for AVs
“When you're talking about extreme high precision measurement cameras oftentimes is just not enough. And the lasers gives you a precise measurement of depth or distance in the three D space.”
Adhikari: LIGO stabilizes lasers ten million times beyond commercial models
“So we take the best laser in the world that we can find, and then we stabilize it and make it about ten million times more stable than what you can buy, and then it's kind of just barely good enough, and we're gonna have to do better if we want to do better.”