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Dr. Diana Huffaker and Dr. Dennis Deppe

UT engineers achieve low cost lasers

September 9, 1998
New technology seen as key for telecommunications industry

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Dr. Diana Huffaker and Dr. Dennis Deppe worked to create a semiconductor laser that can compete with much more expensive lasers used for data transmission, but at the lower cost sought by the telecommunications industry to address growing internet traffic. Deppe, Huffaker and three graduate students will announce the achievement Sept. 10 at the La Jolla Advanced Topics Research School '98, Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference in La Jolla, Calif. 

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