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Special Issue: Lasers Then and Now

OCT 01, 1988

With this special issue on lasers, we celebrate the completion of the Laser History Project, an effort begun in 1982. The project was founded by four societies—The American Physical Society, the IEEE Lasers and Electro‐Optics Society, the Laser Institute of America and the Optical Society of America.

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Gloria B. Lubkin. PHYSICS TODAY.

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Volume 41, Number 10

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