A couple of weeks ago, I announced a contest to determine the Most Amazing Laser Application. What with one thing and another, this didn't get posted last week, but I don't intend to drop it completely, and will be finishing the series up in the next week or so. Here's the list of finalists, with links to those already written up:
- Cat toy/ dog toy/ laser light show
- Laser cooling/ BEC
- Lunar laser ranging
- Optical tweezers
- Optical storage media (CD/DVD/Blu-Ray)
- LIGO
- Telecommunications
- Holography
- Laser ignited fusion
- Laser eye surgery
- Laser frequency comb/ spectroscopy
- Laser guide stars/ adaptive optics
Application #5 should appear later today, with the rest to follow soonish.
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