How a Laser Works

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engineerguy

engineerguy

12 жыл бұрын

Bill shows how the three key characteristics of laser light - single wavelength, narrow beam, and high intensity - are made. He explains the operation of a ruby laser - the first laser ever made - showing how electronic transitions create stimulated emission to give coherent light, and then how the ends of the ruby cavity create a narrow wavelength highly collimated beam. You can learn more about laser in the EngineerGuy team's new book Eight Amazing Engineering Stories www.engineerguy.com/elements

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@zurkel1098
@zurkel1098 7 жыл бұрын
And now we use them to fuck with cats.
@cortster12
@cortster12 7 жыл бұрын
We use them for almost everything.
@hoopsmontrer9887
@hoopsmontrer9887 7 жыл бұрын
+Cortster I use mine to point out stars
@holycrusader8372
@holycrusader8372 7 жыл бұрын
i use them for blinding cats
@inactive9384
@inactive9384 7 жыл бұрын
Holy Crusader your cruel
@shakenbacon993
@shakenbacon993 6 жыл бұрын
*you're
@thefakedeal
@thefakedeal 7 жыл бұрын
I love how mark hamil explains lasers
@nickhighland799
@nickhighland799 7 жыл бұрын
he should have shown us his lightsaber, I'd like to know how that works.
@Nothing_serious
@Nothing_serious 7 жыл бұрын
Samir Shrestha He's tired of Batman
@Tio-Nino
@Tio-Nino 6 жыл бұрын
Beam me up! Scotty!!!
@ingrid2033
@ingrid2033 5 жыл бұрын
Can mark hamil explain how does mark hamil explains light ?
@MsAhutch
@MsAhutch 3 жыл бұрын
This is Clark Hamil, his lesser known but much smarter older brother
@jaykay4137
@jaykay4137 7 жыл бұрын
I know the words, but I don't understand them in that combination.
@Supermario0727
@Supermario0727 7 жыл бұрын
I understand some of this. Hugh school chemistry will teach you some of this stuff.
@ryangis431
@ryangis431 7 жыл бұрын
John Stuart Hugh School? Hugh Mungus has a school?
@louf7178
@louf7178 7 жыл бұрын
Jay Kay lol. Yes, I have the winning lottery numbers. Just have to get the right order.
@KM-fckutube
@KM-fckutube 6 жыл бұрын
Jay Kay, those were my thoughts exactly.
@arkhe1n107
@arkhe1n107 6 жыл бұрын
Thankfully you're not alone.
@justinsander7654
@justinsander7654 5 жыл бұрын
I have always taken time to explain how things actually work to my kids when they ask and having discovered your video's I am proud to say they were absolutely glued to the screen. KZbin should have more educational material like this. To bill directly you sir make the learning fun your selection of props examples and references are excellent. You have taken some very complex subjects and made them interesting and fairly easy to follow Thank you.
@musictechnique
@musictechnique 8 жыл бұрын
I'm not familiar with your career Sir, but if you don't do voice over and narration work then the world is missing out.
@ieuanhunt552
@ieuanhunt552 6 жыл бұрын
DPS he should definitely do a narration of that book he promotes at the end of every video. I would buy it
@munjee2
@munjee2 6 жыл бұрын
DPS check out his audio books
@computername
@computername 5 жыл бұрын
Not sure what it is, but something tells me he must be doing some tech stuff. Maybe even engineering..
@chillpillology
@chillpillology 4 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of bill curtis a little bit
@Plexiate
@Plexiate 5 жыл бұрын
This guy looks 16 and 61 at the same time. (Loved the video.)
@Bigmilklord
@Bigmilklord 3 жыл бұрын
Wow hello there
@silkwurms
@silkwurms 3 жыл бұрын
Last place Id expect to see him
@Bigmilklord
@Bigmilklord 3 жыл бұрын
@@silkwurms same
@shaneh1003
@shaneh1003 3 жыл бұрын
It's the haircut.
@joshuacabezas8061
@joshuacabezas8061 3 жыл бұрын
why is this true
@gregsalcedo4857
@gregsalcedo4857 8 жыл бұрын
In the early 60s, somebody wrote 'The laser is a solution looking for a problem'.
@myearshurtnoone1367
@myearshurtnoone1367 8 жыл бұрын
sounds like hysteria to me
@spoonikle
@spoonikle 7 жыл бұрын
+myearshurt Noone it's based on an old saying "hammer looking for a nail". imagine your local overzealous neighborhood watch desperate to feel useful and trying to solve problems that are not actually problems. basically back in the day nobody thought there was a use for lasers and laser advocates where just running around with hammers smacking at everyone's inventions.
@kriswilson5305
@kriswilson5305 6 жыл бұрын
spoonikle You clarified that wonderfully. Thank you.
@sciencecompliance235
@sciencecompliance235 5 жыл бұрын
"Laser inventor DESTROYS critics in this EPIC video"
@ThZuao
@ThZuao 5 жыл бұрын
Hapens quite often in the engineering world. I bet the people behind the creation of the LASER itself didn't expect much off it. Maybe just the Rangefinding aplication. Hero of Alexandria didn't expect the Aeolipile to be more than a mere curiosity. It took 1700 years for someone to figure out the principles behind the device's inner workings and do something with it, and when it happened, it changed the world forever.
@WarriorAjk
@WarriorAjk 8 жыл бұрын
This video is professional as fuck!
@LazyScoutJace
@LazyScoutJace 8 жыл бұрын
Totally reminds me of FilmmakerIQ
@S....
@S.... 7 жыл бұрын
Could you please give me a definition of a professional fuck?
@sebastiang8634
@sebastiang8634 7 жыл бұрын
Prostitution?
@aholicrealm2850
@aholicrealm2850 6 жыл бұрын
A. Goraya lol
@robertthomas4329
@robertthomas4329 6 жыл бұрын
Unlike you
@fredrickfowler594
@fredrickfowler594 10 жыл бұрын
Dear Bill, thank you so much for so succinctly explaining how a laser works. I sort of had a general idea, but your video is so comprehensive and easy to understand. Science has always been my favorite subject, and being that I am writing one of my books on focusing, I decided to use the laser as an example of how light is focused, and your video was a God send in my understanding it. It gave me the tools that my tired mind from writing for the last fourteen hours needed to complete the chapter that my deadline requires. Bless your heart, and thank you very much once again, Fredrick Fowler
@DeadBread.
@DeadBread. 2 жыл бұрын
Its been Seven years, How's Your book coming?
@engineerguyvideo
@engineerguyvideo 2 жыл бұрын
At the publisher now!
@angelostodomingo5570
@angelostodomingo5570 Жыл бұрын
@@engineerguyvideo bill please make more videos
@bonnome2
@bonnome2 8 жыл бұрын
You should get paid by governments for making these high quality and very clear videos.
@beybladeguru101
@beybladeguru101 7 жыл бұрын
Anything the government does, it fucks up, or is vastly inferior to the private sector.
@Lorpark
@Lorpark 7 жыл бұрын
ZootMiBalot why not?
@Lorpark
@Lorpark 7 жыл бұрын
ZootMiBalot why?
@jesusec100
@jesusec100 7 жыл бұрын
Why not?
@dannywilliamo
@dannywilliamo 6 жыл бұрын
Lol everyone roasted you, but he is a University of Illinois professor, and is therefore paid by the State of Illinois in part to make these videos, as well as teach a class at the school introducing engineering to freshman and sophomores.
@skidooshlayman12
@skidooshlayman12 7 жыл бұрын
And this is why Cyclops's visor is made of ruby.
@jonathanw1019
@jonathanw1019 3 жыл бұрын
Ruby quartz. They're not the same.
@josefish5193
@josefish5193 3 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanw1019 three year old comment....
@jonathanw1019
@jonathanw1019 3 жыл бұрын
Josefish that’s fine. 3 years, 90 likes and not a single person corrected them. Somebody had to do it eventually.
@wsketchy
@wsketchy 3 жыл бұрын
@@josefish5193 The wonder of the internet is that it's not like you're speaking to an empty house, the message will still be there when the occupant returns. You can say something at any time and eventually someone will see it.
@DarkAngelEU
@DarkAngelEU 3 жыл бұрын
@@wsketchy Kinda creepy though, isn't it? We're constantly looking at the past as if it were present. Our future is becoming history within this space outside of time.
@Naton
@Naton 7 жыл бұрын
Nice voice....good presentations... but still didnt understand.
@ChesterChi3
@ChesterChi3 5 жыл бұрын
To understand how lasers work, first you have to already know how lasers work...
@strong8705
@strong8705 4 жыл бұрын
Maybe it's a teaser for a book.
@5udimax
@5udimax 4 жыл бұрын
@@ChesterChi3 what is this, recursion?
@dougschmierer7750
@dougschmierer7750 3 жыл бұрын
He uses too much jargon while making few attempts to define anything. His visuals are simple, which is good, but they attempt to cover too many concepts, which is bad. His sequencing is too rushed and lacking in transitional cues; he jumps from one feature to another without clearly concluding the previous feature or introducing the new feature, so part of your confusion is that you're trying to figure out how new information relates to the last when it likely doesn't; they simply share a theme of "lasers". Basically, this guy is a prime example of why companies pay technical writers to explain engineers' products for them.
@johnjordan3552
@johnjordan3552 2 жыл бұрын
You need to know some at least beginner atom physics
@DonlineUK
@DonlineUK 3 жыл бұрын
Excellent description of how a ruby rod laser works. Seen it in many diagrams over the years - but this explanation brought it all home for me. Well done!
@drakepomeroy2861
@drakepomeroy2861 4 жыл бұрын
I just realized he teaches at the college in my town. So cool!
@worshipwithjonathan
@worshipwithjonathan 3 жыл бұрын
what place, which college?
@tribot_leader
@tribot_leader 3 жыл бұрын
What does he teach?
@luise213
@luise213 3 жыл бұрын
@@worshipwithjonathan UIUC I assume, given what the caption shows at the beginning of the video when introducing him
@rabiaaslam3186
@rabiaaslam3186 3 жыл бұрын
You must visit
@worshipwithjonathan
@worshipwithjonathan 3 жыл бұрын
Im in germany, half way around the world haha
@khalidikan3801
@khalidikan3801 9 жыл бұрын
this is the first time I saw an Arabic translation on youtube made by a non Arab great work thank you for your effort and to make your knowledge accessible almost to all human kind
@Mukeshmiktecrep
@Mukeshmiktecrep 8 жыл бұрын
I watched so many videos but that is the video which deeply clarified the working and the cause of Laser beam.
@ethnicdancer
@ethnicdancer 9 жыл бұрын
Thanks Engineer Guy! My students will love this as much as/more than I did!!! We're studying atomic structure.
@ft_lesserchungus1192
@ft_lesserchungus1192 2 жыл бұрын
engineer gaming
@w04h
@w04h Жыл бұрын
@@ft_lesserchungus1192 engineer gaming
@noggan
@noggan 11 жыл бұрын
I love these videos because learning is fun, thanks for making some of the best videos on KZbin.
@JaseewaJasee
@JaseewaJasee Ай бұрын
your ability to keep things interesting never ceases to amaze me!
@PacoOtis
@PacoOtis 6 жыл бұрын
Bill, we are very big fans of yours and must tell you that you present this video as if you are running late and have to catch a bus! This one appears rather below the "bar" you typically have for yourself. Thanks for the effort but you just might ponder this format! Best of luck!
@mydogwasbrian
@mydogwasbrian 7 жыл бұрын
2:35 - 3:34 so, basically magic.
@frankytoad12
@frankytoad12 7 жыл бұрын
Jesus did it.
@pumpjackmcgee4267
@pumpjackmcgee4267 7 жыл бұрын
Lasers of Jesus would be an awesome band name.
@frankytoad12
@frankytoad12 7 жыл бұрын
I believe you're onto something my friend.
@pokemonplanet4153
@pokemonplanet4153 7 жыл бұрын
Alex Myers damkig
@MrMalibujunkies
@MrMalibujunkies 7 жыл бұрын
fotoelectric effect :)
@samuelchristmas
@samuelchristmas 12 жыл бұрын
Love these videos! Your channel is often the first place I hear in depth about these remarkable feats of engineering. You're doing great work for laymen such as myself :D!
@DjRishi18
@DjRishi18 2 жыл бұрын
Why am I getting this video recommendation in 2021 and not in 2012. Sir, you were ahead of your time. You need to come back!
@jeylful
@jeylful 3 жыл бұрын
Very well explained. I knew about the ruby laser but I didn't know its operation. Great to have shown the ruby ball glowing when illuminated with blue light. Thank you!
@rocklobster1976
@rocklobster1976 9 жыл бұрын
I really love this channel . You go precisely into the right depth needed to explain the most important functions. There aren't many groups that will take the time y'all have. I'd compare you to, mr wizard if I could. Maybe even better
@Observ45er
@Observ45er 8 жыл бұрын
+rocklobster1976 In my opinion, Don Herbert is the gold standard... (except for the two things I am aware of that Don (at least his researcher) got wrong). -- Cheers
@-Maverick.
@-Maverick. 2 жыл бұрын
yeah
@riko2965
@riko2965 8 жыл бұрын
i like his voice and what a great clip!
@akashashen
@akashashen 12 жыл бұрын
Thank you, engineerguyvideo; I love your treatment of the subject matter -- it maintains comfortable rate of change in perspective that ensure the information sustains the interest of the viewer while staying close enough to remain an easy to relate whole. I'm glad I've subscribed.
@MrJamieBla
@MrJamieBla 12 жыл бұрын
I have to say I read the comments before watching the video and I wasn't expecting to understand it because most of the comments say how complicated it is. Yet to my surprise I understood it and I really enjoyed it, looking forward to more of your videos!!
@masterchimichanga117
@masterchimichanga117 6 жыл бұрын
Made perfect sense thx!! Imma build one now
@kx65andyx85rider
@kx65andyx85rider 10 жыл бұрын
Wait what?
@IliaBaranov
@IliaBaranov 7 жыл бұрын
These videos are fantastic, extremely well explained, and well thought out. Thank you @engineerguy
@gnsci141185
@gnsci141185 11 жыл бұрын
When I studied Engineering I just mugged it up without even understanding how it works, but your video is so simple and people can understand it. I have recommended my college and School to share the videos to the students to understand the stuffs. Thanks you so much for these educational videos. I would like to say Thanks in my Mother Tongue "நன்றி"
@dafnasantillo8422
@dafnasantillo8422 9 жыл бұрын
I liked it, it was very well explained, although I was hoping to find a little bit more information about the behaviour of the electrons and the different types of emission and absortion of light.
@kookoon
@kookoon 10 жыл бұрын
I still didn't understood completely. It was interesting anyway.
@yotams6168
@yotams6168 5 жыл бұрын
If you had never learn physics before it maybe will be hard to understand, but if you will be able to understand the basic of it (Bohr Model) I think it will be clear - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_model .
@-Maverick.
@-Maverick. 2 жыл бұрын
are you alive?
@engineerguyvideo
@engineerguyvideo 2 жыл бұрын
Me or the commenters above?
@-Maverick.
@-Maverick. 2 жыл бұрын
@@engineerguyvideo the commenters. Also how did you reply so fast?
@engineerguyvideo
@engineerguyvideo 2 жыл бұрын
I typed
@OwenKoenig
@OwenKoenig 11 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this video, Ill keep an eye for any more you share.
@orangejjay
@orangejjay 7 жыл бұрын
Very well done, my friend. Thank you.
@ReaLzEdits
@ReaLzEdits 8 жыл бұрын
I understood up until 2:19 then I thought.......... ???? So basically I learnt they have rubies in them with some glass beads...... OFF TO THE NEXT SCIENCE VIDEO TO HALF LEARN SOMETHING!
@oldfrend
@oldfrend 8 жыл бұрын
+ReaLzEdits no glass beads. he was just using them as an example of a material that doesn't give off light and comparing them to the ruby that does.
@ReaLzEdits
@ReaLzEdits 8 жыл бұрын
***** See I'm fucked xD
@oldfrend
@oldfrend 8 жыл бұрын
ReaLzEdits ok you want a simpler explanation? see how the ruby shines when he turns the flashlight on it? make the ruby a tube, make the flashlight like a million times stronger, poke a hole in one end of the ruby, BAM, laser.
@TheFungck
@TheFungck 8 жыл бұрын
+ReaLzEdits the video do not explain "stimulated emission". and the picture is not correctly explain the population inversion. in stimulated emission, when light hit the electron to excited state, it will double the income light. Two "mirror" will reflect the light backward and this process repeat many time until "light" are very very strong to exit through the mirror. It is still over simplified but still better then not explain.
@TheFungck
@TheFungck 8 жыл бұрын
+ReaLzEdits "ruby shines in flashlight" is fluorescence not laser....
@Lodox
@Lodox 7 жыл бұрын
Hey look, it's Mark Hamill!
@nuclearnyanboi
@nuclearnyanboi 7 ай бұрын
sincere thanks for making this video
@blackbear92201
@blackbear92201 3 жыл бұрын
Awesome video - thanks for posting!
@TheShattenjager
@TheShattenjager 7 жыл бұрын
When he said "ruby rod," who else besides me flashed to The Fifth Element?
@formdusktilldeath
@formdusktilldeath 6 жыл бұрын
you beat me to it, by a year no less. UNBELIEVABLE!
@flappy7373
@flappy7373 6 жыл бұрын
i already wrote this exact same thing.. you beat me to it by 3 months and dan beat me to it by a year haha
@Cammi_Rosalie
@Cammi_Rosalie 5 жыл бұрын
Dan sweetheart, what was that? ...It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! Ya' know I got a show to run here, and it must pop POP POP!!! So tomorrow from 5 to 7 will you please act like you have more than a two word vocabulary. It must be green, okay?
@Preinstallable
@Preinstallable 3 жыл бұрын
I have the fifth element on a dvd
@boomerhgt
@boomerhgt 3 жыл бұрын
Nobody
@easterdm
@easterdm 9 жыл бұрын
Was lost by 2:30
@yotams6168
@yotams6168 5 жыл бұрын
If you had never learn physics before it maybe will be hard to understand, but if you will be able to understand the basic of it (Bohr Model) I think it will be clear - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr_model .
@Gman333Xferrari
@Gman333Xferrari 12 жыл бұрын
More videos please Bill! These are amazing.
@bobbob-gg4eo
@bobbob-gg4eo 4 ай бұрын
11 years old and still a quality recommendation on my feed
@newtybot
@newtybot 3 жыл бұрын
If they ever made Jurassic Park real, I’d like you to be the new Mr. DNA
@R2D6_10
@R2D6_10 2 жыл бұрын
lmao! dude, you nailed it!
@keo515
@keo515 12 жыл бұрын
I learnt about how lasers work last year and he pretty much covered a weeks worth of lectures in this video. Basically, when the ruby is given enough energy an electron will be 'excited' into a higher energy state. when the electron drops energy state, energy is emitted in the form of light, thus laser. Hope that helps a bit.
@saumitrachakravarty
@saumitrachakravarty 6 жыл бұрын
The most concise yet coherent explanation of LASER I have ever come across.
@WeBe3Dprinting
@WeBe3Dprinting 10 жыл бұрын
You explain things so wonderfully and you respond to fan comments promptly. I am so damn subscribed. Keep'em coming!
@silvermarkjames3181
@silvermarkjames3181 9 жыл бұрын
Where did you get the ruby from I want some
@mozkitolife5437
@mozkitolife5437 8 жыл бұрын
Great video but the animation regarding the treatment of detached retinas looks like damage control and not welding in back on as described.
@mozkitolife5437
@mozkitolife5437 2 жыл бұрын
@Major Problems Thank you. So I was right? There's different procedures for welding the retina and the animation merely demonstrates how the detachment is prevented from progressing.
@fensoxx
@fensoxx 3 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh! Best channel on any media (for me). Can’t wait until he comes back with more. Thanks!
@mybluemars
@mybluemars 8 жыл бұрын
Amazing presentation!
@thegardenofeatin5965
@thegardenofeatin5965 7 жыл бұрын
Question: Why specifically Ruby? Do other corundum gems exhibit that same property?
@Squirrel_314
@Squirrel_314 7 жыл бұрын
I don't think it's the aluminum or oxygen in the corundum that actually gets pumped, but the chromium impurities. Other sapphires might be able to lase, but perhaps not in the visible spectrum, which is rather narrow?
@jammccockin8304
@jammccockin8304 5 жыл бұрын
Michael yes. my thoughts exactly... but you forgot to carry the 1.
@casparvoncampenhausen5249
@casparvoncampenhausen5249 3 жыл бұрын
@@jammccockin8304 😂
@MrMattsung
@MrMattsung 8 жыл бұрын
Can you do one on green lasers? Their mechanism is different, and I would love to hear you explain it!
@fxDELTAx
@fxDELTAx 8 жыл бұрын
The principle is the same which you are still exciting electrons into a higher energy state and allowing the electrons to relax back to its ground state. But the material is different. The wavelength (color) depends on the energy difference of the excited state and the ground state for that is the energy the electron gives off when it relaxes. This would require different materials, many green lasers today are uses semiconductors as the lasing medium.
@Doom2pro
@Doom2pro 7 жыл бұрын
Not really, most Green Lasers are using an Infrared laser passed through a small doped crystal that changes the wavelength to green. I believe this is what he is referring to.
@AeroElectro
@AeroElectro 7 жыл бұрын
MrMattsung Look up frequency doubling. Or second harmonic generation. Focused light passes through a non linear crystal where SHG effect produces wavelengths of half of the original.
@ridwanadhipratama7688
@ridwanadhipratama7688 7 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for the video!
@cassianolara7713
@cassianolara7713 2 жыл бұрын
subscribing to this channel is a treat to oneself
@monupahal123
@monupahal123 3 жыл бұрын
Ok ..i found this channel yesterday and i watched like 20 videos And i know nothing about these engineering
@ccg4204
@ccg4204 7 жыл бұрын
Bill the EngineerGuy vs. Bill Nye the Science Guy. They must fight in a cage!
@Dargonhuman
@Dargonhuman 7 жыл бұрын
A cage ... made of lasers!
@rocking195
@rocking195 6 жыл бұрын
Bill nye is also an engineer guy
@jek__
@jek__ 5 жыл бұрын
Engineer fight! Someone break out the battlebot kits
@user-cz2cv3dp9h
@user-cz2cv3dp9h Жыл бұрын
This is super amazing and with a nice fundamental explanation. Thanks
@ThomasGrillo
@ThomasGrillo 2 жыл бұрын
I remember reading about this in the book, "Lasers and Masers". Very nicely demonstrated. Thanks for sharing this.
@magzire
@magzire 8 жыл бұрын
still no idea lol
@Tomwesstein
@Tomwesstein 8 жыл бұрын
I kept looking at the four red dots moving to the excited, lower energy and ground state, listening at his explanation and thinken: what on earth is he talking about and why dont these dots decide where they want to be?
@TSTrueSanctuary
@TSTrueSanctuary 7 жыл бұрын
+Tom Wesstein the dots go into the excited state because they're given energy from the outside light but they always go back to ground state by shooting out the energy as light because theyre lazy dots
@Jack2Japan
@Jack2Japan 7 жыл бұрын
+Tom Wesstein - Yes, make up your mind(s) already!
@randominternetprofile8270
@randominternetprofile8270 7 жыл бұрын
it's really basic quantum mechanics.
@torugho
@torugho 3 жыл бұрын
@@randominternetprofile8270 and?
@carazy123_
@carazy123_ 3 жыл бұрын
2:14 “lasing”
@domsusefulstuff
@domsusefulstuff 12 жыл бұрын
That was awesome. Now to watch it 20 more times so that I can follow it all.
@randomvicky939
@randomvicky939 7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing !
@norinco8724
@norinco8724 7 жыл бұрын
>scans his own book shameless self promotion
@VamosRapidocom
@VamosRapidocom 4 жыл бұрын
Maybe he should scan yours
@strong8705
@strong8705 4 жыл бұрын
4 minutes ad.
@gustavoturm
@gustavoturm 4 жыл бұрын
C'mon, he is doing awesome work, I approve his ads.
@MilanKarakas
@MilanKarakas 7 жыл бұрын
Wrong about "exact length of the rod". Length does not matter.
@LAnonHubbard
@LAnonHubbard 7 жыл бұрын
That's not what my wife said. Just before filing for divorce.
@steve24822
@steve24822 7 жыл бұрын
WildMania Correct, it's all about girth!
@19.sciencetechnology30
@19.sciencetechnology30 7 жыл бұрын
WildMania That's not what she said! lol
@thatguy431
@thatguy431 2 жыл бұрын
Dude this was amazing!
@GWhizard
@GWhizard 7 ай бұрын
Bill, One of the most enjoyable channels on yt. And a voice of tranquility. 👍
@daemon9150
@daemon9150 8 жыл бұрын
Both mirrors have to be concave for this to work aka for the gaussisn optic to allow a mode
@psycronizer
@psycronizer 5 жыл бұрын
flat out wrong...
@MultiSciGeek
@MultiSciGeek 8 жыл бұрын
Wait... I tought lasers don't need a lamp or a ruby. Was it an older version of a laser he was explaining?
@MultiSciGeek
@MultiSciGeek 8 жыл бұрын
TheArmFlailer Never knew that. How come lasers are so cheap and affordable then? Are the gems impure or very small?
@MultiSciGeek
@MultiSciGeek 8 жыл бұрын
TheArmFlailer Alright I see. Then what is the other laser with gas inside and no lamp? Only switching electron states?
@MultiSciGeek
@MultiSciGeek 8 жыл бұрын
TheArmFlailer Oh ok. Thanks for explaining
@AlexForencich
@AlexForencich 8 жыл бұрын
There are many ways to make a laser. All you need is a laser cavity, a gain medium, and a source of energy. In the ruby laser, the flash lamp provides the 'pump' energy and the 'pumped' ruby provides the gain medium. Mirrors create the cavity. However, other things can be used as a gain medium. Helium neon lasers use a combination of helium and neon gas in a tube. Electricity passed through the tube provides the energy, the excited gas provides the gain, and the mirrors at the ends of the tube form the cavity. Diode lasers use specially doped semiconductor to form the gain medium with electric current providing the energy. The laser cavity can be formed a number of ways - cleaved semiconductor faces, distributed gratings, etc. Lasers can be used to pump gain material as well, for example erbium doped fiber amplifiers use lasers to pump energy into a section of glass optical fiber that contains a small amount of erbium to form the gain medium. This can be built into a laser, but more commonly it is used to amplify optical signals in a fiber so that they can be sent hundreds of miles. The gain medium can also be a liquid - lasers called dye lasers circulate liquid dye as a gain medium and can be pumped with flash lamps or other lasers to produce light with specific properties.
@MultiSciGeek
@MultiSciGeek 8 жыл бұрын
Alex Forencich Yeah that's the type I was thinking about, like how do they make all the multi colored lasers. Thank you for explaining :)
@orgminyak
@orgminyak 11 жыл бұрын
Oh I see! Thank you so much for the reply and all your videos!
@lafo1639
@lafo1639 29 күн бұрын
awesome explanation! thank you for your excellent work on this
@NVAfilm
@NVAfilm 7 жыл бұрын
but can you tear apart the Lazer pointer so we can see it.
@abdulazizalhaidari4574
@abdulazizalhaidari4574 8 жыл бұрын
engineerguy I recommend you to slow down while speaking to grasp the ideas you want to deliver ! Special thanks
@thedevo01
@thedevo01 8 жыл бұрын
+AbdulAziz AlHaidari - Yeah, the music implies that he's talking to 9-year-olds, but he's pouring information on the listener like they're a fellow engineer.
@Paradox3121
@Paradox3121 8 жыл бұрын
These videos are not that difficult to follow... but in any case, you guys know you can watch a video on KZbin more than once, right?
@ManuAnand97
@ManuAnand97 8 жыл бұрын
+AbdulAziz AlHaidari I don't have any problem. You can turn on the Captions and/or slow down the video at the part what you couldn't understand.
@thatonedevastatingleek380
@thatonedevastatingleek380 6 жыл бұрын
Devo Castler As long as you've taken highschool science you'll get it
@ix12
@ix12 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, he is a bit fast and I have to pause and read, but I prefer it that way rather than if he'd be too slow and make me lose patience, I would never watch his videos then :)
@panzerdragon1121
@panzerdragon1121 6 жыл бұрын
I can't stop watching your videos!
@Akula114
@Akula114 3 жыл бұрын
I was 5 years old when the first laser was made, and it was a bit of a news item in my small home town because a locally born man, Dr. Charles Townes, had done so much pioneering work on the MASER that led to the LASER . I remember all the Life magazine articles and National Geographics with lot's of great pictures. Despite everything I read, I just couldn't understand how they worked until seeing your video. Now all the pieces and parts just flow together. THANK YOU! PS: Dr. Townes son was famous for another kind of stimulated emission... he was found, well, what was left of him, in a relatively intact car - a victim of spontaneous human combustion. Maybe that was aliens sending Townes a Sicilian message of sorts... "Hey, Pal, you're getting kinda close to our technology... back it off if you know what's good for you!"
@leejennifercorlewayres9193
@leejennifercorlewayres9193 9 ай бұрын
Sad. Probably murdered, God rest his soul. 🙏🌹
@leejennifercorlewayres9193
@leejennifercorlewayres9193 9 ай бұрын
I can't find any information on his son.
@manualLaborer
@manualLaborer 8 жыл бұрын
136 people have been shot (and probably horribly disfigured) by lasers.
@manualLaborer
@manualLaborer 7 жыл бұрын
hmmm. is she at least 12? >_>
@seethisth4753
@seethisth4753 7 жыл бұрын
Where is she?
@bruhforreal5730
@bruhforreal5730 7 жыл бұрын
otacon333x2 I've never seen such an amount of sarcasm radiate through a comment.
@DallasGreen123
@DallasGreen123 7 жыл бұрын
manualLaborer so funny and original, how do you even come up with something like that
@19.sciencetechnology30
@19.sciencetechnology30 7 жыл бұрын
This is how the human penis erects! Upon seeing an attractive human, the eyes send a pleasure sensor to the brain, which instantaneously creates a surge of blood through the body's vein channels connected to the males testicles, resulting in an overflow of blood pulsating within a confined area of vessels. As this occurs, a rapid production of energy builds within the testicles producing millions of sperm! When the testicles become full, the sperms are released through the hole in the penis. Once all of the sperm is released, the energy relaxes to ground level, producingin a state of relaxation. The male then becomes very tired and falls asleep for several hours.
@MacMashPotato
@MacMashPotato 7 жыл бұрын
Ruby rod? like that pop singer in 5th element?
@carlvincent7756
@carlvincent7756 8 жыл бұрын
Amazing as always. I got the book!
@MrVenat0r
@MrVenat0r 12 жыл бұрын
Nice simple explanation. Really good.
@_qaplan_
@_qaplan_ Жыл бұрын
مين جى من عند محمود مجدي ☺️🤍🤍
@abdoskiller1048
@abdoskiller1048 Жыл бұрын
هو انت بتزاكر الدرس قبل ما تاخده ولا ايه
@tibor29
@tibor29 7 жыл бұрын
Isn't it crazy that the same specie that is able to come up with stuff like this also engages in primitive behaviors such as chopping each other into pieces with machetes or blowing each other up with explosives? Usually for absolutely ridiculous reasons such as ethnicity, race or religion. It's staggering how smart and stupid humans can be at the same time.
@davidb5205
@davidb5205 7 жыл бұрын
That's due to differences between individual and collective behavior.
@christopherrogers6194
@christopherrogers6194 4 жыл бұрын
Well done, articulate accurate and easy to understand, and you have a soothing voice.
@danielc0307
@danielc0307 12 жыл бұрын
Amazing job, Bill. Thank you!
@LNasterio
@LNasterio 6 жыл бұрын
2:30 Good job at confusing the population there, why don't you show an atom instead? why don't you show electrons jumping from different energy levels and release photons?
@MoeMentos
@MoeMentos 8 жыл бұрын
This guy is great, but that hair of his could sure use some engineering.
@hack3line
@hack3line 8 жыл бұрын
+Pharaoh Polystyrene I think in the next video he will show how to do hairstyles like Albert Einstein, Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, Lagertha, Ragnar.. what kind of engineering stuff did the Vikings brought into English world to do a lot of hair styles.. probably will also discuss why Pharaohs hide his hairs under his hat, what kind of engineering did happen during Pharaohs era that the Nefertiti head become soooo biggggggg and hugeeeeeeeeeeee !!!
@vincenttripi4700
@vincenttripi4700 6 жыл бұрын
B. Smith I'm dying laughing.
@3melendr592
@3melendr592 6 жыл бұрын
B. Smith That loss of hair comes from a brain that works so hard there's no nutrients left for hair. Lol
@Ozlizardking
@Ozlizardking 6 жыл бұрын
B. Smith he must have stockpiled conditioner from the 80s.
@author4932
@author4932 6 жыл бұрын
B. Smith engineering xD nice expression :D :D
@mdouglaswray
@mdouglaswray 10 жыл бұрын
Well done!! Good explanation of the energy states, just enough detail. Thank you!
@christofergreen214
@christofergreen214 2 жыл бұрын
For nine years I've been missing out
@serpentlaw5961
@serpentlaw5961 2 жыл бұрын
*This is so well presented and fascinating to watch.*
@Supersamazing
@Supersamazing 12 жыл бұрын
I've always wanted to know this. Thank you so much !
@blink4t2
@blink4t2 8 жыл бұрын
You guy are nothing short of awesome. Keep on keepin on. I'll keep hitting that like button
@fernandorizo9413
@fernandorizo9413 8 жыл бұрын
Wow that was really informative! thanks for sharing!
@christiandaly4281
@christiandaly4281 2 жыл бұрын
I’ve watched like every video, truly the people’s work. Bless you Sir
@RPG_ash
@RPG_ash 12 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, love this channel.
@Gribbo9999
@Gribbo9999 5 жыл бұрын
I think that was the clearest explanation of a laser I have ever seen.
@CJSwitz
@CJSwitz 12 жыл бұрын
Had to watch that twice, but I think I understand :D
@Melkanea
@Melkanea 8 жыл бұрын
Found it! MORE PLEASE IT IS AWESOME!
@guappoo7503
@guappoo7503 11 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Thank you for the informative video :D
@BubblewrapMe
@BubblewrapMe 2 жыл бұрын
The background music improves this enormously - thank you.
@LeeXiaoMei
@LeeXiaoMei 2 жыл бұрын
Ooooo thanks for this video! Really easy to take in and digest. An inspiration for teaching!
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