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Tribute to Theodore Maiman Set

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Simon Fraser University (SFU), in Vancouver, British Columbia, announced today it will mark May 16 -- the anniversary of the invention of the world's first laser -- with a "quiet remembrance" of physics pioneer and inventor Theodore Maiman, who died May 5. (See also: Laser Inventor Dies at 79) The tribute will be held in SFU's IRMACS (Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences) presentation studio at 4 p.m. Maiman was associated with SFU as an adjunct professor for many years and helped establish a curriculum in biophotonics engineering at SFU which is now part of the new biomedical engineering program. SFU engineering science professor Andrew Rawicz said efforts are underway to establish a foundation to secure Maiman's collection, which includes the first laser and documentation of Maiman's progress in its development. Maiman invented the laser and demonstrated its operation in 1960. The California-born scientist moved to Vancouver in 1999 and received an honorary degree from SFU in 2002.
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Published: May 2007
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An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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