Supraparticle laser (IMAGE)

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Supraparticle laser

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A supraparticle laser confines and amplifies light through whispering gallery modes — resonant light waves circulating along a spherical boundary — inside a tiny sphere made from aggregated colloidal quantum dots.

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Dillon H. Downie, University of Strathclyde

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