" We show microcombs with total on-chip power levels up to 158 mW and comb lines with an intrinsic linewidth as narrow as 200 kHz."

150mW is a lot for a single-chip laser, given that the eye safety limit for standard red laser pointers is about 5mW.

Tricorders ftw

I had, maybe naively assumed that laser diodes were switched on/off electronically to modulate a signal. With this laser you’d have to modulate after the light source somehow ?

Almost like a storage room, except with as much operational, calibrated equipment at the fingertips as the working room would possibly fit.

Regardless of the essential auxiliary storage space having at least 5x the square footage of the working lab itself. Where hopefully at least 20% of the equipment there is operational, if not currently calibrated or in use. Which would then equal the amount in operation in the lab.

If the storage area is down the hall, or maybe in the basement, or a convenient nearby building, the same breakthroughs will be possible by the same researchers.

It will just take more time the further the storage area is, and the more pieces of equipment for which there is no backup in storage.

And way more time if at all, when the storage area is too small to get the job done.

Anything less and you're shooting yourself in the "footage" :)

>Cleaning up messy light

Or cleaning up your messy lab, you can have both, you just have to prioritize what you want to accomplish more of in your lifetime.