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Information
and Education - Selected Links
Here
is a short of list
of web sites sites that provide additional information about lasers with some
brief comments on the contents:
| Laser
Institute of America [LIA] |
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This site provides a
Laser
Safety Bulletin that has been prepared by LIA's Laser Safety Committee to educate new laser users on the concerns and issues related to laser safety.
There is also a very useful page on Laser
Pointer Safety (which is also reproduced in our Basic
Laser Safety pages). |
| University of Waterloo |
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The Laser
Safety Manual used at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada. It gives a great deal
of detail about various kinds of lasers. The 'Laser Fundamentals' section
gives a lot of scientific
detail on how laser light is generated and has diagrams of the lasing
process. |
| The "Laser Adventure " by Rami
Arieli |
| The Laser Adventure |
A site with a scientific orientation that contains details on the theory
and operation of lasers and scientific
terminology relating to lasers. It also includes a number of
experiments you can perform with lasers using simple apparatus
that you can build yourself. |
| Lovelight |
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Web pages created to cover the
technology and provide details and images of the pioneering laser
show "Lovelight".
This was one of the first laser shows that used graphics and
animations and had a complete story line with music especially
composed for the show. There is also a page with photos of
the inside of a position detecting scanner. |
| Laserium |
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Home page of Laserium,
the company that started
laser shows. There are some very beautiful images from thier shows
in the Laserium
Image Gallery. |
| The
Laserist |
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The on-line version of the
International Laser Display Association (ILDA) magazine
"The
Laserist" featuring selected articles from the printed
version. |
| The
Invention of the Laser |
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This series
of web pages on the Bell Labs site discuss the invention of the
laser. The invention of the laser, which stands for light
amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, can be dated to
1958 with the publication of the scientific paper, Infrared and
Optical Masers, by Arthur L. Schawlow, then a Bell Labs
researcher, and Charles H. Townes, a consultant to Bell Labs.
That paper, published in Physical Review, the journal of
the American Physical Society, launched a new scientific field and
opened the door to a multibillion-dollar industry. A picture of
the patent document for the laser is shown at the left. |
Links to
pages of general interest in our Backstage area
| Urström
at the 1999 Stockholm Water Festival |
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A
detailed
report (from an insiders perspective) of one of the major laser
shows presented in Europe in 1999 at the Stockholm Water
Festival. The show was created by Obscura Magica and involved
stereoscopic 3D laser animations, beam effects, Pani image
projections over a kilometer long, a woman flying over the show site,
fire and smoke effects. |
| Blinded
by the lights - Pink Floyd on Tour |
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A review of the
Pink
Floyd 1994 Division Bell concert in Toronto. Aside from
the usual high quality production one expects of Pink Floyd's, this
tour was notable as it used high power Copper Vapour lasers. A
backstage look at the systems and the laser technology used in the concert. |
| A
Brief History of Laser Light Shows |
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A very brief
history of the
pioneering laser light shows from the early days of the laser light
show industry. |
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