They penetrate the darkest of dark skies. They cut, engrave, and weld metals, they measure distances and speeds with great accuracy, they eliminate eyesight problems in a thousandth of a second: thanks to their amazing potential, laser beams have made their way into our everyday life. They are used in cd and dvd players, in supermarket tills and in the manufacturing and telecommunications industries; they are used in operating theatres for eye and brain surgery, in medicine, in topography, in holograms. We will explore the properties and uses of this super-slim beam that is charged with an energy that could potentially create, here on Earth, a light as bright as the sun.
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