• Question: How many lasers would u be deeling with every day

    Asked by DARRAGH H to Padraic on 10 Feb 2015.
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      Padraic Morrissey answered on 10 Feb 2015:

      Hey Darragh
      It depends on what we are trying to do with the lasers on any given day. If new lasers were just made, I might test 20-30 of them to check if all the designs worked. Then once I know they are ok, I would pick 1 or 2 and do some intensive tests on those to see how they are perform.

      At the moment we are trying to do some new physics with a particular set of lasers, so we are focussing all our attention on getting those to work the right way.

      Recently I designed a chip that had over 19,000 lasers on it! It was really cool 🙂

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