Jeff Hecht
L ASERS
and the Glory Days of
Industrial Research
Fifty years ago, well-funded corporate labs were great places to
do research. They could afford sophisticated equipment; they
employed an enviable depth of talent; and they paid
better than academia. That made them the
ideal environment for developing
lasers in the 1960s.
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