I hope you don’t need me to remind you, but Monday 16 May 2022 will be the fifth International Day of Light. It marks the anniversary of the first successful operation of the laser on 16 May 1960 by physicist and engineer Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories in California. Of all the many “international days” in the calendar, this to me is the most important, given how vital the laser has been for digital communications, medicine, spectroscopy and countless other fields besides.
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