Designing them to light up an entire room or shine a beam over a long distance is far more technically challenging and requires higher production costs.

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That happens because, provided those electrons that have given off light are quickly pumped back to their excited states, the light bouncing around between the mirrors will stimulate the production of yet more light and a powerful, coherent beam will emerge.

ECONOMIST: Optoelectronics