An anonymous reader writes "Communications lasers no longer need lenses! Instead they can add a plasmonic collimator. The new technique etches grooves directly into the semiconductor laser's internal mirror, then uses constructive interference to eliminate the need for the bulky optical lenses that usually focus the light from semiconductor lasers." Link to Original Source
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