We will now consider specific lasers that typify each of several important classes. Historically, the now ubiquitous helium-neon laser occupies a special place after the ruby laser, as the first gas laser to implement the emerging ideas on how to extend the concept of a maser oscillator to optical frequencies, ideas associated mainly with the names of Townes, Schawlow, and Basov.
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Major, F.G. (2007). Laser Systems. In: The Quantum Beat. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69534-1_15
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