What's a Fasor?

[RA_pierce]

Okay, I see waht you mean. Bu I am trying to point out that a Fasor is not different to a Laser like a Maser or Raser would be, but that it is just an "enhancement" of the laser, but basically still a laser.

I agree. A fasor seems more like an enhancement to a laser. But "Light" is a general term that may refer to the entire spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. So wouldn't a Maser be a long wavelength laser? (I don't completely understand masers so don't kill me if I'm wrong!)

 

[Switch]

I thought "light" refers only to the visible spectrum, or in some cases to UV and IR also....But I don't think you could call radio waves light, sounds a bit wrong IMO :
I think it's safe to say that a fasor is just a more complex way of using lasers of certain wavelengths to achieve another.

 

[spyrorocks]

 

[RA_pierce]

I thought "light" refers only to the visible spectrum, or in some cases to UV and IR also....But I don't think you could call radio waves light, sounds a bit wrong IMO :
I think it's safe to say that a fasor is just a more complex way of using lasers of certain wavelengths to achieve another.

Just because you can't see radio waves gamma rays doesn't meant it isn't light. It's all radiation, just with different properties. We can't see UV or IR so why do we call those "light?" Technically, the entire EM spectrum is "light." We just don't normally call it that.

 

[philguy]

Meh, dunno. If you were saying all EM is photons, yes. But I'd say Light is photons and X-Ray is photons. But I wouldn't apply "light" to any other area of the spectrum, same way I don't call visible light "ultra extreme short wave radio". But maybe that's just me...
Ah, just call it light.

Maser = Microwave amplification through stimulated emission of radiation.
So, yeah basically "beyond-IR-laser".

 

[Switch]

Are you saying that I could make popcorn from 20 feet with a maser pointer?
I wonder if you could make one out of an ordinary microwave oven magnetron....hmmmm...

 

[BlueFusion]

Gamma ray lasers exist too you know!
Only problem is the 'pump diode' of sorts is a nuclear bomb.

So you set it up with the cavity pointing at whatever several kilometres away you want to vapourise at an atomic level, then fire it, and you get a nanosecond burst of extremely intense gamma radiation that is coherent, but only for a nanosecond (or some short period of time) before the lasing apparatus is blown to dust by the exploding nuclear device behind it.