{"id":4551,"date":"2010-02-23T08:54:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T08:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/23\/laser-smackdown-update\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T08:54:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T08:54:27","slug":"laser-smackdown-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/23\/laser-smackdown-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Smackdown Update"},"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. What with one thing and another, this didn&#8217;t get posted last week, but I don&#8217;t intend to drop it completely, and will be finishing the series up in the next week or so. Here&#8217;s the list of finalists, with links to those already written up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/amazing_laser_application_1_li.php\">Cat toy\/ dog toy\/ laser light show<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/amazing_laser_application_2_la.php\">Laser cooling\/ BEC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/amazing_laser_application_3_lu.php\">Lunar laser ranging<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a  href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/amazing_laser_application_4_op.php\">Optical tweezers<\/a><\/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>Application #5 should appear later today, with the rest to follow soonish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I announced a contest to determine the Most Amazing Laser Application. What with one thing and another, this didn&#8217;t get posted last week, but I don&#8217;t intend to drop it completely, and will be finishing the series up in the next week or so. Here&#8217;s the list of finalists, with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/23\/laser-smackdown-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laser Smackdown Update<\/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":[13,188,169,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-laser_smackdown","category-lasers","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","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=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}