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West Virginia University

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The lab of Mikel Holcomb, associate professor of physics and astronomy, contains an optics table with an ultrafast laser. It is designed to pump a lot of power into a sample in order to see what that increase in energy does to material properties. Those properties reveal how they would work as devices.

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WVU Photo/Brian Persinger

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