Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.

 

Anything will lase if you hit it hard enough.
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as quoted by Steven Chu and Charles H. Townes (2003). Biographical Memoirs V.83. National Academies Press. p. 203. ISBN 0-309-08699-X. 

 

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

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