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There are flashlights, and there are lasers. They are somehow the same: devices that emit light. But we also know that there must be a substantial difference between the two. There is something that makes the mood become futuristic as soon as a laser turns up in a conversation. It is impossible to think of a modern, technological world without lasers. They read our CDs, DVDs and Blue Rays, can fix vision defects in our eyes, measure distances, read bar-codes and replace wooden pointers during presentations.
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Bahr, B., Lemmer, B., Piccolo, R. (2016). Lasers. In: Quirky Quarks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49509-4_5
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