Abstract
The successful operation of the first working laser by Theodore Maiman1 in 1960 was like the key to a locked chest full of other types of laser, just waiting to be discovered. Only six years later, working prototypes of gas, liquid, solid, and semiconductor lasers had been constructed by several groups of investigators, spurred on by Maiman’s achievement. By the end of that decade, hundreds of materials had been found capable of laser action.
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Fisher, J.C. (1988). A Brief History of the Nd:YAG Laser. In: Joffe, S.N., Oguro, Y. (eds) Advances in Nd:YAG Laser Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3728-0_2
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