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Optics and photonics

Optics and photonics

A solid (state) success

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10 Oct 2018 James McKenzie
Taken from the October 2018 issue of Physics World, which celebrates 30 years of the world’s best physics magazine.

James McKenzie reflects on the impact of the solid-state laser, a device in its infancy when it became the subject of one of the first articles in Physics World

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James McKenzie is the writer of the Transactions column for Physics World about physics in industry. He is writing here in a personal capacity
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