Lasers and Their Applications

Recent advances in solid-state physics have provided the scientific community with a number of coherent light sources — lasers (or optical masers). This true light amplification, first demonstrated in ruby, is discussed in terms of the fluorescence process. The concept of a “light oscillator” is developed. Laser applications are in the fields of communications, laboratory research, photography, medicine and optical ranging.

Print ISSN

0361-4573

Published

1962-11

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J15448