Best of 2013: World’s First Digital Laser Designed and Built in Africa
Views - MIT Technology Review 2014-01-06
Summary:
In February, African physicists built the first laser with a beam that can be controlled and shaped digitally.
Lasers are one of the emblematic technologies of the modern world. The chances are that most readers will be less than a metre away from a laser of some kind as they read this. Lasers fill our world.