A look at the CCD, halfway through the process. Inspired by techniques used in industry, [Les] eventually tried to use a several-kW nitrogen laser to burn off the filter (which seems appropriate ...

Blast a high-intensity monochromatic laser down one end, and white light comes out the other end. Such fibers are obviously fantastically expensive, so [Les] looked back in the literature and ...

"It's pretty cool the effect that we can have on some of these kids. And you said, you can feel the positive energy in here and kids are having a blast so far," Quinn said. "It's a little bit of ...