{"id":4601,"date":"2010-04-12T11:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/12\/return-of-the-laser-smackdown\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T11:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:16:34","slug":"return-of-the-laser-smackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/12\/return-of-the-laser-smackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Laser Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several 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. Personal issues interrupted this, but I want to finish it out in honor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfest.org\/\">LaserFest<\/a> 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><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/02\/amazing_laser_application_4_op_1.php\">Optical storage media (CD\/DVD\/Blu-Ray)<\/a><\/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>I&#8217;ll be writing up LIGO shortly, and will try to finish the whole thing as soon as possible given my other responsibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, I announced a contest to determine the Most Amazing Laser Application. Personal issues interrupted this, but I want to finish it out in honor of LaserFest Here&#8217;s the list of finalists, with links to those already written up: Cat toy\/ dog toy\/ laser light show Laser cooling\/ BEC Lunar laser ranging Optical&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/12\/return-of-the-laser-smackdown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Return of the Laser Smackdown<\/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":[19,188,169,7,11,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiment","category-laser_smackdown","category-lasers","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","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=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}