![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120926001214im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field World's Smallest Semiconductor Laser Created by University of Texas Scientists
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July 26, 2012
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Physicists at the University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed the world's smallest semiconductor laser, a breakthrough for emerging photonic technology with applications from computing to medicine.
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