Happy 50th Birthday, Lasers
If you had to single out one nerveless , geeky technology as the preeminent sang-froid , geeky engineering , optical maser would be a fine choice . They ’ve enrich our gismo , confused our cat , and , for half a century , lit up our imagery . On March 22 , 1960 , back when everybody had three name , Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes pick up the first optical maser patent ....