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Schawlow, 1963 - Google Patents

Advances in optical masers

Schawlow, 1963

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13427074414177275772
Author
Schawlow A
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Scientific American

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It is never possible to predict when a development in technology will fire the imagination of the scientific and engineering community. Fifteen years ago it was the transistor, which stimu lated a worldwide Bowering of solid state physics. The latest device to fas cinate the …
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