{"id":672430,"date":"2026-11-02T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672430\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T06:56:08","slug":"rochester-is-getting-all-the-lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672430\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester is getting all the lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rochester is becoming a national hub for laser science, thanks to the National Science Foundation and New York State. <\/p>\n

As reported by WXXI’s Brian Sharp<\/a>, the University of Rochester will take the initial lead on a laser program that’s part of a nationwide project called the NSF STELLAR Engine. The work will be based in downtown Rochester’s Sibley Square and is expected to expand to the Lake Avenue photonics hub. <\/p>\n

And speaking of photonics, there has been a slow buildup on jobs and activity. It\u2019s not the next Kodak, but it amounts to thousands of jobs. <\/p>\n

We discuss what the lasers will do (and no, they will not be attached to sharks, Dr. Evil) and we explore what the research might accomplish. <\/p>\n

In studio:<\/p>\n

“Connections” is livestreamed each day on the WXXI News YouTube channel. Watch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rochester is becoming a national hub for laser science, thanks to the National Science Foundation and New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[61,60,248,82],"class_list":["post-672430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}