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Why the laser industry needs physicists

01 Jun 2017
This article first appeared in the 2017 Physics World Focus on Optics and Photonics

Lucian Hand argues that physicists’ multi-disciplinary training makes them ideally suited for a career in the laser industry, where the challenges and opportunities vary almost daily

(Courtesy: UAB EKSPLA)
We’ve come a long way in the decades since the laser was invented, but in many ways the photonics

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Lucian Hand is president of Altos Photonics, a laser and optics firm based in Bozeman, Montana, US, e-mail lucian@altosphotonics.com
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