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    The carbon-dioxide laser (CO2 laser) was one of the earliest gas lasers to be developed. It was invented by Kumar Patel of Bell Labs in 1964 and is still...
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    material. The focused laser beam is directed at the material, which then either melts, burns, vaporizes away, or is blown away by a jet of gas, leaving an edge...
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    used to excite gas lasers. A solar-pumped laser uses solar radiation as a pump source. Electric glow discharge is common in gas lasers. For example, in...
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    an erbium-doped fiber laser with a linewidth of only 10 millihertz. Following the invention of the HeNe gas laser, many other gas discharges have been...
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    atomic gases going strong". National Science Review. 3 (2): 168–170. doi:10.1093/nsr/nwv073. E. S. Shuman; J. F. Barry; D. DeMille (2010). "Laser cooling...
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    Xenon (redirect from Xenon gas)
    first noble gas compound to be synthesized. Xenon is used in flash lamps and arc lamps, and as a general anesthetic. The first excimer laser design used...
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    and gas handling equipment. High temperatures and fire hazards may also result from the operation of high-powered Class IIIB or any Class IV Laser. In...
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    The noble gases (historically the inert gases, sometimes referred to as aerogens) are the naturally occurring members of group 18 of the periodic table:...
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    This is a list of laser types, their operational wavelengths, and their applications. Thousands of kinds of laser are known, but most of them are used...
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    Gas-discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electric discharge through an ionized gas, a plasma. Typically...
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