Looking Back
30, 20 and 10 Years Ago in OPN
X-ray amplifiers; lasers for fine-art conservation; diamond Raman lasers.
1994 [C.K. Rhodes]
“The new results that have been obtained may enable the construction of the brightest light sources ever produced at any wavelength. Since these sources ... have a peak brightness many orders of magnitude higher than currently available technologies, they would make possible a multitude of important applications heretofore considered far out of reach. Among them would be the power to form instantaneous high resolution three-dimensional images of condensed matter, a new mode of seeing.”
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