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Dr. Theodore “Ted” Maiman’s laser—the world’s first working laser—represented a major breakthrough in the field of applied physics. Today, the amplification of light resulting from a laser is used for a variety of activities ranging from surgery to weaponry.
Theodore H. Maiman (born July 11, 1927, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.—died May 5, 2007, Vancouver, B.C., Can.) was an American physicist, who constructed the first laser, a device that produces monochromatic coherent light, or light in which the rays are all of the same wavelength and phase.
When the first working laser was reported in 1960, it was described as "a solution looking for a problem." But before long the laser's distinctive qualities—its ability to generate an intense, very narrow beam of light of a single wavelength—were being harnessed for science, technology and medicine.
On May 16, 1960, American physicist Theodore Maiman presents the world’s first operating laser at Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, California.
Theodore Maiman developed the first working laser at Hughes Research Lab in 1960 and his paper describing the operation of the first laser was published in Nature three months later. Since then, more than 55,000 patents involving the laser have been granted in the United States.
William Bennett and Ali Javan invented the helium-neon laser–the first gas laser and the first laser to operate continuously, rather than in pulses. A few years later Kumar Patel developed the C O 2 laser.
The first large-scale application for lasers was the laser scanner for automated checkout in supermarkets, which was developed in the mid-1970s and became common a few years later. Compact disc audio players and laser printers for personal computers soon followed.
Bright Idea: The First Lasers. Imagining Ray Devices. Since ancient times, people believed that rays of light carry grand and mysterious powers. Interest in radiation redoubled around the start of the 20th century with the discovery of radio, X-rays and radioactivity.
The date, 16 May, is the anniversary of the first successful operation of a laser achieved by Theodore Maiman in 1960, a result published in Nature entitled ‘Stimulated optical radiation in...