But a microphone that imitates the remarkably acute hearing of a tiny fly - and gives it a boost with the latest in miniature lasers and signal processing - may one day help solve this problem.

I also rigged a miniature laser which would cut the tiny chunk of metal clear of my shoulder.

His jacket was covered in dozens of miniature red lasers that shot into the crowd and distracted them from trying to remember what album "Ultraviolet" is from.

It contained a miniature infrared laser whose needle-fine beam was at that moment trained on the windowpane of a house almost a mile away.

A nanolaser, also referred to as a miniature laser is a laser, namely a light amplifier by stimulated emission of radiation, that has nanoscale dimensions.

Then primary power was restored, and miniature lasers began to weld the hull solid as hydraulic pumps forced warped sections closed.

The miniature laser affixed to his temple shorted out.

The miniature laser was mounted over her right ear, with the pickup tube right above it.

He wanted to scream, but his throat felt as if someone was firing a miniature laser inside it.

IPtronics is a supplier of driver and receiver ICs that go into the optical module, performing the conversion from electricity to light and vice versa, using miniature lasers and photodetectors.