Second, and more to the point, gold has the ability to
convert infrared laser energy to thermal energy.
Not exact matches
Now, researchers have come up with a more direct approach, by inventing a new material that
converts photons from an
infrared (IR)
laser into visible light.
Infrared laser beams,
converted to shorter wavelengths by optical crystals, may heat heavy hydrogen to 100 million degrees Celsius.
It is difficult to make a green
laser directly, so nonlinear optical crystals are used to
convert infrared light to green.
Infrared laser light from therapy
lasers harmlessly penetrates deep into tissues where it is absorbed in the cells, and this energy is
converted into chemical, not thermal, energy.