Solid-state lasers articles within Nature

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• News | 15 August 2012

  Microwave laser fulfills 60 years of promise

  Physicists build first practical maser.

  • Geoff Brumfiel

• Letter | 15 August 2012

  Room-temperature solid-state maser

  Using an organic molecular crystal as gain medium allows a maser to be operated in pulsed mode in air, at room temperature and in the terrestrial magnetic field, so avoiding many of the obstacles that have previously hindered the application of masers.

  • Mark Oxborrow
  • , Jonathan D. Breeze
  •  & Neil M. Alford