Monthly Archives: May 2010

An interview with Kathleen Maiman

By Pauline | Published: May 22, 2010
Twelve years after the 40th anniversary of the laser, we are celebrating its 50th. That’s only possible because the 40th anniversary was a Bell Labs’ invention based on the date of the now famous Physical Review paper describing the theory of “Infrared and optical masers”.
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Rewriting the history of the laser

By Pauline | Published: May 15, 2010
Winston Churchill famously said that history is written by the victors. In the case of the laser it might be more accurate to say that history was written by those with the best public relations team.
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