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Laser

A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word "laser" is an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation". The first laser was built in 1960 by Theodore H. Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories, based on theoretical work by Charles Hard Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow.
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Total Publications
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792,633
Prior Five Years
147,786
Total Citations
Lifetime
9,117,370
Prior Five Years
914,619
Total Scholars
Lifetime
640,486
Prior Five Years
429,977

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#1
Osaka University
Japan
#2
Stanford University
United States
#3
University of Michigan
United States
#4
University of Rochester
United States
#5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
#6
University of California, Berkeley
United States
#7
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
#8
University of California, Irvine
United States
#9
University of Tokyo
Japan
#10
Imperial College London
United Kingdom
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Academic Institutions

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#1
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China
#2
Xi'an Jiaotong University
China
#3
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China
#4
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
#5
Shandong University
China
#6
Tsinghua University
China
#7
University of California, Santa Barbara
United States
#8
Harbin Institute of Technology
China
#9
National University of Defense Technology
China
#10
South China University of Technology
China
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Non-academic Institutions

Lifetime

#1
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russia
#2
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
United States
#3
United States Naval Research Laboratory
United States
#4
National Institute of Standards and Technology
United States
#5
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
United States
#6
Massachusetts General Hospital
United States
#7
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche
Italy
#8
Los Alamos National Laboratory
United States
#9
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Japan
#10
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
Germany
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