The chaotic motion of light rays gives microlasers surprising emission properties, enhancing quantum tunnelling by many orders of magnitude and producing highly directional output beams.
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Stone, A. Chaotic billiard lasers. Nature 465, 696–697 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465696a
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