IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a ruby crystal from Theodore ...

Exclusive to optics.org: Innovative intra-cavity design has produced a continuous-wave ruby laser, with other novel sources set to follow. A new source developed by Germany-based laser supplier ...

1960: Physicist Theodore Maiman uses a synthetic-ruby crystal to create the first laser. Maiman began tinkering with electronic devices in his teens and even earned college money repairing appliances ...

Hackers from all over Europe descended upon Rome last weekend for the Maker Faire that calls itself the “European Edition”. This three-day event is one of the largest Maker Faires in the world — they ...

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUevWmUViJM&w=580] We were again pleased to find another person who attended Maker Faire just to show off the awesome and not ...

12 May 2009 – Elliot Scientific is now taking advanced orders for the world's first Continuous Wave (CW) Diode Pumped Solid State (DPSS) laser that outputs at the significant 'ruby' wavelength of ...

Dr. Theodore Maiman studies a ruby crystal in the shape of a cube in a laser. Photo courtesy Bettman/Corbis View Slideshow __1960: __Physicist Theodore Maiman uses a synthetic-ruby crystal to create ...