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The laser

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The Microwave Engineering Handbook

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The key to the laser — ‘laser’ being an acronym for ‘Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation’ — is the ‘stimulated emission’, a phen-omenon predicted theoretically by Einstein in 1917.

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  1. A. Orszag
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  1. Alcatel group, Paris, France

    Bradford L. Smith (International Patents Consultant and Engineer, Senior Member of the IEEE and the French SEE) (International Patents Consultant and Engineer, Senior Member of the IEEE and the French SEE)

  2. Thomson-CSF, Paris, France

    Michel-Henri Carpentier (Vice-President, Scientific and Technical Director, Professor in ‘Grandes Écoles’, Fellow of the IEEE and President of the French SEE) (Vice-President, Scientific and Technical Director, Professor in ‘Grandes Écoles’, Fellow of the IEEE and President of the French SEE)

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© 1993 Bradford L. Smith and Michel-Henri Carpentier

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Orszag, A. (1993). The laser. In: Smith, B.L., Carpentier, MH. (eds) The Microwave Engineering Handbook. Microwave Technology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4552-5_8

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