{"id":2038,"date":"2010-05-19T22:30:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T20:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2025-08-22T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:13:57","slug":"laser-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/2038","title":{"rendered":"Laser 50th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 16 1960: Theodore Maiman presented the first laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) to the world. 50 years later, lasers are used in everyday life in fiber-optic communications, CDs\/DVDs players, laser printers, laser medical procedures, and many more applications.<\/p>\n<p>But the laser has many fathers, as stated in this poetry from PhD Comics<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics\/archive\/phd051210s.gif\" alt=\"ode to the laser\" width=\"600\" height=\"778\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-posts\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 16 1960: Theodore Maiman presented the first laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) to the world. 50 years later, lasers are used in everyday life in fiber-optic communications, CDs\/DVDs players, laser printers, laser medical procedures, and many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/archives\/2038\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scienza","category-tecnologia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20337,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions\/20337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maurograziani.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}