{"id":10198,"date":"2011-10-31T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10198"},"modified":"2011-10-31T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T08:00:08","slug":"do-or-diode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10198","title":{"rendered":"Do or Diode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rdmag.com\/News\/2011\/10\/Manufacturing-Photonics-Diode-lasers-may-vie-with-LEDs-for-lighting-supremacy\/\">Diode lasers may vie with LEDs for lighting supremacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/9718\">BMW with laser headlights.<\/a>  But the higher efficiency is tempting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Little research had been done on diode lasers for lighting because of a widespread assumption that human eyes would find laser-based white light unpleasant. It would comprise four extremely narrow-band wavelengths\u2014blue, red, green, and yellow\u2014and would be very different from sunlight, for example, which blends a wide spectrum of wavelengths with no gaps in between. Diode laser light is also ten times narrower than that emitted by LEDs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diode lasers may vie with LEDs for lighting supremacy It&#8217;s not just BMW with laser headlights. But the higher efficiency is tempting. Little research had been done on diode lasers for lighting because of a widespread assumption that human eyes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10198\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}