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Innovation begins and ends with a question

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DANIEL MCCARTHY, SENIOR EDITOR [email protected]

Photonics industry old-timers are familiar with the trope that the laser, at the time of its invention in the mid-60s, was a “solution in search of a problem.” This collective memory might have become a bit romanticized over time, because it clearly didn’t take long for an industry-worth of defense contractors, materials processors, retail OEMs, spectroscopists, and academicians to emerge from the woodwork and put stimulated optical emissions to work. Roughly 30 years later, in a stroke of unintentional irony, that same “solution in search of a problem” was...Read full article

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