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Lasers

Lasers

Six decades of laser science

14 May 2020 Margaret Harris
Beams of laser light
Light show: Celebrating 60 years of the laser. (Courtesy: iStock/Terraxplorer)
In October 1959, Theodore “Ted” Maiman, a relatively unknown 32-year-old physicist, set

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Margaret Harris is an online editor of Physics World
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