Director’s Corner 8 July 2010 Barry Barish The laser and the next 50 years In my column last week on the 50th anniversary of the demonstration of the first working laser at Hughes Research Laboratory in 1960, I stressed the remarkable impacts this fundamental physics discovery has had both in developing a multibillion-dollar industry and […]
The laser and the next 50 years
Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the laser
Director’s Corner 1 July 2010 Barry Barish Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the laser This year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Theodore Maiman’s demonstration of the first working laser at Hughes Research Laboratory in 1960. The laser has become so common that what began as an acronym describing a physics phenomenon (LASER for […]