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An event to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the first working laser and the award of the 2009 Nobel Prize to Professor Charles Kao CBE FREng FRS

The inventors of the Maser, Left to right J.P. Gordon, N. G. Basov, H. J. Zeiger, A. M. Prokhorov and C. H. Townes. Photo taken by John Sanders (Oxford University) at the Shawanga Lodge NY USA meeting in September 1959 (before the demonstration of the first laser). Photo courtesy of the Sanders family.

John Sanders working in his lab in Oxford around 1972

Clarendon Lab Group (Oxford) photo of 1962 showing Colin Webb (left) next to Ed Ballik.

Photograph of Ed Ballik's room in the Clarendon Lab circa 1963-4. On the extreme left hand side of the optical table is Ed Ballik's Helium Neon Laser together with all the diagnostic equipment he used.

 

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