{"id":4674,"date":"2010-05-08T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T10:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/08\/the-past-and-future-of-the-las\/"},"modified":"2010-05-08T10:54:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T10:54:59","slug":"the-past-and-future-of-the-las","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/08\/the-past-and-future-of-the-las\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past and Future of the Laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s not aprt of the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfest.org\/\">LaserFest<\/a> package of stuff, <cite>Physics World<\/cite> is marking the 50th anniversary of the laser with a couple of really nice pieces on lasers in science and popular culture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/indepth\/42429\">Where next for the laser<\/a> interviews six laser experts&#8211; Claire Max of UCSC, Bill Phillips of NIST, Steven Block of Stanford, science writer Jeff Hecht, John Madey of Hawaii&#8217;s FEL lab, and Eric Gustafson of Caltech and LIGO.&#8211; about the current status of lasers in their areas of science, and the future prospects.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/physicsworld.com\/cws\/article\/indepth\/42421\">From ray-gun to Blu-Ray<\/a> is a very nice survey of lasers and laser-like devices in popular culture, from the various uses of lasers in science fiction films to the practical applications of lasers in optical data storage and bar-code scanners and the like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both pieces are well worth reading on a cold and dreary Saturday. Or any other kind of day, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s not aprt of the official LaserFest package of stuff, Physics World is marking the 50th anniversary of the laser with a couple of really nice pieces on lasers in science and popular culture: Where next for the laser interviews six laser experts&#8211; Claire Max of UCSC, Bill Phillips of NIST, Steven Block of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/05\/08\/the-past-and-future-of-the-las\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Past and Future of the Laser<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,80,265,33,169,35,15,7,37,11,56,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-history_of_science","category-in_the_media","category-in_the_news","category-lasers","category-movies","category-music","category-physics","category-pop_culture","category-science","category-technology","category-television","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}