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Laser - Joseph Weber submitted a paper on using stimulated emissions to make a microwave amplifier

Time: 1951

Place: U.S.

Details: In 1951, Joseph Weber submitted a paper on using stimulated emissions to make a microwave amplifier to the June 1952 Institute of Radio Engineers Vacuum Tube Research Conference at Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. After this presentation, RCA asked Weber to give a seminar on this idea, and Charles Hard Townes asked him for a copy of the paper.

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