{"id":4525,"date":"2010-02-08T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T11:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/08\/laser-smackdown-the-finalists\/"},"modified":"2010-02-08T11:25:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T11:25:02","slug":"laser-smackdown-the-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/08\/laser-smackdown-the-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Smackdown: The Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/01\/laser_smackdown_the_most_amazi.php\">announced a contest<\/a> to determine the Most Amazing Laser Application. After a <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/laser_smackdown_amazing_laser.php\">follow-up post listing the likely candidates<\/a>, we have a final list of candidate applications, an even dozen of them (after consolidating some related topics):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cat toy\/ dog toy\/ laser light show<\/li>\n<li>Laser cooling\/ BEC<\/li>\n<li>Laser ranging\/position measurement<\/li>\n<li>Optical tweezers<\/li>\n<li>Optical storage media (CD\/DVD\/Blu-Ray)<\/li>\n<li>LIGO<\/li>\n<li>Telecommunications<\/li>\n<li>Holography<\/li>\n<li>Laser ignited fusion<\/li>\n<li>Laser eye surgery<\/li>\n<li>Laser frequency comb\/ spectroscopy<\/li>\n<li>Laser guide stars\/ adaptive optics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how this will work: over the next week or so, I will write up a series of blog posts explaining these applications, and the pros and cons of each. At the end of that time, I&#8217;ll put up a poll, and we&#8217;ll decide the winner based on that most scientific of methods: random people on the Internet clicking radio buttons.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space&#8211; the first application post will appear this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I announced a contest to determine the Most Amazing Laser Application. After a follow-up post listing the likely candidates, we have a final list of candidate applications, an even dozen of them (after consolidating some related topics): Cat toy\/ dog toy\/ laser light show Laser cooling\/ BEC Laser ranging\/position measurement&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/08\/laser-smackdown-the-finalists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laser Smackdown: The Finalists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,7,11,56],"tags":[168,114,115,92,185,88,186],"class_list":["post-4525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lasers","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","tag-contest","tag-laser","tag-optics-2","tag-physics-2","tag-poll","tag-science-2","tag-technology-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}