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scientist holds a chip-scale ring resonator and a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode
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Sonia Fernandez
Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser

Bringing the power of tabletop precision lasers for quantum science to the chip scale

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Headshot of Herbert Kroemer
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Herbert Kroemer
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lfireflies looking like yellow circles in the early evening
A long-exposure shot of fireflies in Thailand
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Sand dunes surround palms, trees, shrubs and a small lake in the UAE.
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Jing Yang via iStock
A desert oasis is perhaps the most striking example of a groundwater-dependent ecosystem.
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Fishing boats in Peru
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Renato Molina
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orange and black butterflies on a branch
Monarch butterflies undertake a multigenerational migration that covers thousands of miles
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hand holding a small white device
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Matt Perko
The small, wearable device is part of a system that monitors drug concentrations and delivers accurate dosages
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Yellowtail dascyllus and other tropical fish swim by a cauliflower coral in American Samoa.
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Dam via Adobe Stock
Damselfish like these yellowtail dascyllus have an outsized effect on reefs compared to their humble proportions.