Solar-Powered Laser(A new laser could convert magnesium into energy.)

posted by   sram (355)   9 months ago (www.technologyreview.com)

A new kind of efficient, solar-powered laser has been developedby researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, in Japan.They hope to use the laser to help them realize their goal ofdeveloping a magnesium combustion engine. The researchersdescribed the new laser in a recent issue of Applied PhysicsLetters.

The idea, says Takashi Yabe, a professor of mechanicalengineering and science at the Toky