The Nobel Prize, a prestigious set of six annual international awards bestowed upon recognition of academic, cultural and scientific advances, was awarded this year to Arthur Askin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their combined achievements in laser physics. Executive Director of the Laser Institute of America, due to hold the 37th edition of the renown International Congress […]
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The Laser’s Founding Father: Remembering Charles H. Townes
By Geoff Giordano In his 1999 book How the Laser Happened, the late Charles Hard Townes explained that, “Once invented, lasers found a myriad of uses” and noted that they had advanced to the point that “the smallest lasers are so tiny one cannot see them without a microscope.” A far cry from the heady […]