Lasers were, for a considerable period of time, large machines of considerable complexity. Recently, this has changed. But even though they are more abundant, they are still rather inefficient, having only 20 to 30% of the available photons actually used.

However, there now exists a laser smaller than the point of a pin, but that uses 70% of the available photons in its operations.

The laser consists of only two minuscule ridges no more than 1/100000^th of an inch high, and composed of indium, gallium, and arsenide-phosphide. Because of the way in which it is carved, photons follow a more defined path. Previous lasers used mirrors to confine the beam, now the walls of this micro unit do the job, but much more efficiently.

The possibilities of this device are limitless, from communications, computers, and medicine.

The OSR will provide updates as them are available.