Original and recycled lasers (IMAGE)

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Original and recycled lasers

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The researchers were able to recover quantum dots from supraparticle lasers and use them to create new lasers that performed similarly to their precursors. These scanning electron microscopy images show the original lasers and the recycled lasers.

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Dillon H. Downie, University of Strathclyde

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