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17th Feb 2012 - How do lasers work?

From DVD players and supermarket scanners to laser pointers and Bond movies, lasers are part of our lives. But just how do they work? In this Naked Science Scrapbook we find out how excitable atoms produce the laser beams and how those beams are used to perform surgery, send information through the internet and even measure the distance to the moon!

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Lasers in Medicine	Why did a Laser Make My Nuts Glow?	How Does Laser Eye Surgery Work?
Lasers, Atoms and our Universe!	LASER WAYS - LASIK (laser) correction of vision	Supercomputers & Super Computing
TEA Laser - How lasers work	Checking the Atmosphere and Changing the Climate	What Makes Mucus Green?
Life Where the Sun Don't Shine...	Aspirin's Anniversary	Where does Phlegm come from?

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