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Timeline of the history of Lasers.

Created by aaalvarado on Feb 21, 2011

Last updated: 02/21/11 at 09:49 PM

Tags: Lasers Albert Einstein Lasik

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Feb 21, 2011 2:54 PM

• Steven Trokel
  1987

  Steven Trokel made the connection to the cornea and performed the first laser surgery on a patient's eyes in 1987.
  http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/laser_2.htm

• Diode Device
  1962

  Robert N. Hall demonstrated the first laser diode device.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser#History

• Ali Javan
  1961

  First gas laser : Helium- Neon (He-Ne laser) at Bell Laboratories.
  http://www.worldoflasers.com/laserhistory.htm

• Theodore
  1960

  Theodore Maiman invented the ruby laser considered to be the first successful optical or light laser.
  http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/laser.htm

• Bell Labs
  1954

  Charles Townes and Arthur Schawlow invented the maser (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation), using ammonia gas and microwave radiation.
  http://www.bell-labs.com/history/laser/

• Albert Einstein
  1917

  Albert Einstein developed a theory of stimulating light emission.
  http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/laser.htm