What is it about?
Masers are the cousins of lasers, shooting very clean and low-noise microwaves. Why have we barely heard of them? Because they have been stuck in freezing cold fridges or vacuums to work. We finally bring the maser out of the lab and onto your desktop, making it the size of a shoebox without the fridge or any unwieldy vacuum boxes.
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Why is it important?
Microwaves are everywhere from medical diagnostics, quantum, satellite communication and mobile broadcasts. Our maser could be used to boost these microwaves in order to make medical sensors more sensitive, mobile communications reach farther and wider, and amplify the next generation of quantum computers.
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This page is a summary of: “Maser-in-a-shoebox”: A portable plug-and-play maser device at room temperature and zero magnetic field, Applied Physics Letters, January 2024, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0181318.
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