coherent light
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One example is the ability to charge a so-called quantum battery, which requires coherent light that can collectively push atoms into an excited state.
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A simple assumption would be that the incoming coherent light performs work, while the outgoing light, having lost some coherence, represents heat.
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Even light that has become partially incoherent can still perform useful work, just less effectively than fully coherent light.
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However, maintaining the stable, coherent light needed for such computations at speeds above 10 GHz has proven extremely difficult.
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His work centers on miniaturizing mode-lock lasers -- a unique laser that emits a train of ultrashort, coherent light pulses in femtosecond intervals, which is an astonishing quadrillionth of a second.
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