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| | Lasers-Science Tracer Bullet-Library of Congress |
 | | The laser medium consists of a collection of atoms, molecules, ions, or a crystalline solid or semiconducting crystal, that generates laser light. |
 | | Laser light is emitted in a directional beam, and can be produced from the x-ray through to the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared radiation parts of the spectrum. |
 | | Laser applications include materials working (i.e., cutting, welding, drilling, and otherwise modifying industrial materials, including both metals and nonmetals), communications and information processing, medicine, measurement and inspection, data capture, surveying, marking, and alignment, printing and graphics, laser weaponry, isotope enrichment, holography, inertial confinement fusion, spectroscopy and atomic physics, and plasma diagnostics. |
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