{"id":453952,"date":"2026-02-02T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453952\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T17:04:08","slug":"chinas-first-of-a-kind-abf-crystal-creates-most-energised-solid-state-laser-beam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/453952\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s first-of-a-kind ABF crystal creates most energised solid-state laser beam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The shortest wavelength of a laser beam generated from a crystal has been realised in a laboratory at the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, according to a new paper.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At 158.9 nanometres (nm), it leads to all-solid-state lasers with the highest output energy recorded.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The all-solid-state solution offers a desktop-scale size, lower cost, easier maintenance and performance equal to room-sized laser systems, such as those based on gas plasma and synchrotron radiation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The team\u2019s achievement combines theoretical breakthroughs with the cultivation of the higher-quality ABF. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0736e4a5-6a46-422c-9090-36f6eebb930c_0e30467c.jpg\" title=\"The team\u2019s achievement combines theoretical breakthroughs with the cultivation of the higher-quality ABF. Photo: Handout\"\/>The team\u2019s achievement combines theoretical breakthroughs with the cultivation of the higher-quality ABF. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the heart of this achievement is ammonium fluorooxoborate (ABF), a crystal designed and cultivated by Chinese scientists over 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shortest wavelength of a laser beam generated from a crystal has been realised in a laboratory at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[162836,234289,64,63,5225,56661,2270,234286,292,234288,2292,128,120424,234287,234285],"class_list":["post-453952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-abf","tag-ammonium-fluorooxoborate","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-chinese-scientists","tag-nature","tag-pan-shilie","tag-physics","tag-potassium-beryllium-fluoroborate","tag-quantum-computing","tag-science","tag-semiconductor-industry","tag-space-platforms","tag-xinjiang-technical-institute-of-physics-and-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}