petrushka.googol Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Are there any applications where a laser can be more effectively substituted with a maser? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffon Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Interesting question. I know a fair bit about lasers and almost nothing about masers apart from their use as atomic clocks, communications, radar etc. I suppose the most obvious difference is wavelength. Lasers cover the near IR to x-Ray region of the EMS whilst masers are in the microwave region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I depends on what you want to do with it. As Griffon mentions, masers are used as clocks. It is only recently that lasers were able to function in a similar way, so masers were more effective. They still are, in terms of continuously-running clocks (i.e. actual clocks and not frequency standards) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griffon Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 What's your interest, Petrushka? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enthalpy Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 The ratio of the frequencies is like 105. Is there any application that could use both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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