Uploaded August 2013 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Researchers have measured light emitted by photoluminescence from a nanodiamond levitating in free space. In a paper they describe how they used a laser to trap nanodiamonds in space, and-- using another laser-- caused the diamonds to emit light at given frequencies.

Source: Univ. of Rochester

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