Melbourne, May 6 (IANS) Diamonds are not just a woman’s best friend, they also have some awesome heat-handling capability – making it an ideal material to improve the quality of high-powered laser beams.
“Diamonds have a massive potential to make lasers travel much further and improve the beam quality, or more importantly the beam brightness, which allows you to focus the power of the laser beam onto a small target,” explained Aaron McKay of Macquarie University in Australia.
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