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When Irnee and I observed the first laser go into action, Irnee was smiling and jumping up and down with glee. I was numb and emotionally drained from all the tension and excitement.
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Editor’s note: Hellwarth later recalled, “I have become famous among some of our friends for ... being probably the third person in the world (after Ted and Irnee) to see a laser, when I responded to Ted’s call from 30 feet down the hall, ‘Hey! You wanna see something neat?’” (correspondence with Kathleen Maiman) Chap. 20 describes Hellwarth’s subsequent invention of the Q-switched laser.
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The crystal growth engineer at Linde responsible for the manufacture of the original rubies was Ralph Hutcheson . Some years later, I got to know Ralph and we became good friends. He left Linde and founded his own company, Scientific Materials, which he dedicated to the growth of high quality electro-optical crystals with emphasis on YAG (an explanation of this important laser crystal will be found later in the text).
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Maiman, T.H. (2018). The Light Fantastic. In: The Laser Inventor. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61940-8_12
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