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#1-2. History of LASER

In 1954, Townes and his follower James Gordon succeeded at the first amplification and creation of electromagnetic waves based on stimulated emission from the ammonia MASER, the first device constructed based on Einstein’s predictions. The following image is the first page of Gordon Gould’s famous notebook, where he created the acronym LASER and explained the essential elements for its formation. On May 16, 1960, Theodore H. Maiman, a physicist at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, created the first laser by using a synthetic ruby cylinder, about 1 cm in diameter and 2 cm in length….

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