Anti-Laser Created by the Yale University

This device, created by a certain group of people at Yale Univeresity, created a machine that can absorb an incoming laser. Though these scientists believe it is not believed for study of weapons. They will be using it for future generation supercomputers. These supercomputers will use light energy instead of electron currents.

As quoted from the website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12453893) :

"Recent advances in laser design have resulted in a number of unusual devices that do not fit the traditional concept of a laser, Professor Stone explained. "So we were working on a theory that could predict what could be used to form a laser," he said. That theory also predicted that instead of amplifying light into coherent pulses, as a laser does, it should be possible to create a device that absorbs laser light hitting it, said Professor Stone - an anti-laser. Their device focuses two lasers beams of a specific frequency into a specially designed optical cavity made from silicon, which traps the incoming beams of light and forces them to bounce around until all their energy is dissipated. In a paper published in the journal Science they demonstrated that the anti-laser could adsorb 99.4 per cent of incoming light, for a specific wavelength."

What are my opinions? I think it's rather scary. What if this was used in a bad way? Like, what if two bad guys took the machine, and used for defenses in a different country, and everything would be pretty chaotic. Even if it WAS used for supercomputers though, I think it should be protected very well. It could still be weapon. Now, if it was protected, and no one stole it or anything, I think the ideas of supercomputers running on light energy would be amazing. No one has though of that, and that technology would be so advanced. I just hope it's used wisely. :)

(There is no picture of the anti-laser, so I got a picture of a scientist working on it...)