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Very interesting - reminds me of superconductors. Some quantity which normally cannot be escaped (ie, everything has some amount of resistance, or the Q factor
by Tossrock 9y ago
Very interesting - reminds me of superconductors. Some quantity which normally cannot be escaped (ie, everything has some amount of resistance, or the Q factor is a finite number) that under certain special conditions can actually hit its singularity. Special conditions which necessitate exotic new theory.
Also, call me cynical but it seems like the natural application is pulsed laser weapons. Now instead of spending infinity dollars on a portable megawatt laser that can gimbal to attack a target, you have a kilowatt laser that charges a waveguide until it has equivalent energy to the megawatt laser and then discharges it as necessary.
- irq 9y agoThis type of laser already exists, they're called solid state lasers. [1]. (Note that these lasers are distinct from semiconductor lasers, which are more colloquially called "diode lasers".) EDIT: Q-switched laser may be closer to this. [2] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_laser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_laser 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-switching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-switching