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The theoretical foundations for lasers were one of Albert Einstein’s many groundbreaking contributions to physics, realizing that instead of just absorbing or spontaneously emitting a photon, atoms could be stimulated to emit photons [1]. The word laser is an acronym for light amplification (by) stimulated emission of radiation.
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Ostermayr, T. (2019). High-Power Lasers. In: Relativistically Intense Laser–Microplasma Interactions. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22208-6_3
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