Real advance, fake podcast

This is a silly thing, but I’m going to post it here anyways. We just released our latest work on laser scan engine technology. It’s focused on how we can increase the scan angle range of otherwise inertia-limited scan engines.

The increase can be any integer multiple: 2x, 3x, 4x, or more– we show that there’s no limit in principle. Critically, this scan angle range increase comes with no penalty in terms of line scan rate or beam diameter. Lead engineer Che-Hang Yu did spectacular work on this– very creative, thorough, and rigorous. He provides a bunch of diffraction-limited designs, example data, and creative variations including a phase amplifier that can be used for adaptive optics.

Che-Hang had the fun idea to use AI to make a fake podcast about the work. I found it hilarious! It’s quite good in terms of describing the work in plain language, and it’s hysterical how it nails a lot of cliches about podcasts.

To share the fake podcast, I made a (real) video of me listening to it and providing some commentary and visual aids.