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Group Photo 2019

June 3, 2019

Bowers Group 2019 (left to right):

Front row: Tina Hang, Warren Jin, Yating Wan, John Bowers, Kaiyin Feng, Jenny Selvidge

Second row: Albert Tsui, Chen Shang, Lin Chang, Andrew Netherton, Noelle Collins

Third row: Joel Guo, Robert Zhang, Alexander Spott

Fourth row: Chao Xiang, Toshi Kamei, Hongwei Chen, Weiqiang Xie, Paolo Pintus

Fifth row: Jon Peters, Haowen Shu, Justin Norman, Songtao Liu, Mario Dumont

Back row: Colin Jones

Not pictured: MJ Kennedy, Aditya Malik, Xiaowen Guo, Pari Patel

A history of the laser: 1960 to 2019

In 2020, the laser will celebrate its 60th anniversary. Here Photonics Media presents a timeline of some of the more notable scientific accomplishments related to light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation (laser). An interactive version of the laser timeline is also available, as well as a primer on laser basics detailing how lasers work.