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Revolution in Light Could Ignite Scientific Dawn
A laser beam of red light demonstrates a new kind of energy with potential to burn through diamonds or steel, illuminate the moon, and heal eye retinas. The technology could become a death ray, a space radar, a communication tool, and a billion dollar industry by 1970, with rapid progress since Townes and Schawlow proposed optical amplification.
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