microlaser
nounEtymology From micro- + laser.
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A microscopic laser, typically a few microns in size.
- In 1989, the first dramatic demonstration of a microlaser was successfully performed by scientists based primarily at Bell Labs; they were able to manufacture one million lasers on a tiny chip smaller than a fingernail.1999, Michio Kaku, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-first Century, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 288: