Beam —— The Race to Make the Laser

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ISBN: 9780195142105 出版年：2005 页码：285 Hecht, Jeff Oxford University Press

Forty-five years ago, physicist Theodore Maiman and his colleagues made the first laser work at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif. Maiman performed the experiment on May 16, 1960, using an elegant ruby rod placed in a spring-shaded flash lamp.