IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a ruby crystal from Theodore ...

IN a cavity laser system, oscillation by stimulated emission occurs when the gain is sufficient to overcome the total loss in the cavity. Cavity loss not only determines the threshold condition of ...

Exclusive to optics.org: Innovative intra-cavity design has produced a continuous-wave ruby laser, with other novel sources set to follow. A new source developed by Germany-based laser supplier ...

After nine months of intensive study, physicist Theodore Maiman was hoping for a flash of brilliance. It was spring 1960, and Maiman had been working with an assistant, Irnee D’Haenens, at the Hughes ...

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUevWmUViJM&w=580] We were again pleased to find another person who attended Maker Faire just to show off the awesome and not ...

1960: Physicist Theodore Maiman uses a synthetic-ruby crystal to create the first laser. Maiman began tinkering with electronic devices in his teens and even earned college money repairing appliances ...

DURING an investigation with lasers we carried out impacts of the calvarium and rib fragments 1 and, later, laser drillings of sections of polished bone and femurs of the dog were performed (personal ...