{"id":4485,"date":"2009-12-22T06:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2009-12-22T06:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:30:59","slug":"one-ping-only-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4485","title":{"rendered":"One Ping Only, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18313-single-light-wave-flashes-out-from-fibre-laser.html\">Single light wave flashes out from fibre laser<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Konstanz researchers started with pulses from a single fibre laser and split them between two sets of fibres that contained atoms of the rare earth metal erbium to amplify the light waves. Each fibre then had a second stage that altered the light&#8217;s wavelength, one stretching it by about 40 per cent, the other shrinking it by a similar amount. The two fibres then converged again, causing the two light beams to interfere with one another in a way that cancelled out most of the waves to leave just a single wave cycle lasting just 4.3 femtoseconds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single light wave flashes out from fibre laser The Konstanz researchers started with pulses from a single fibre laser and split them between two sets of fibres that contained atoms of the rare earth metal erbium to amplify the light &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4485\">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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","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=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}