Laser - Gordon Gould noted his ideas for a "laser"

Time: Nov, 1957

Place: Columbia University, New York, U.S.

Details: Simultaneously, at Columbia University, graduate student Gordon Gould was working on a doctoral thesis about the energy levels of excited thallium. When Gould and Townes met, they spoke of radiation emission, as a general subject; afterwards, in November 1957, Gould noted his ideas for a "laser", including using an open resonator (later an essential laser-device component).

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