{"id":932,"date":"2010-06-12T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T00:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/Wordpress\/?p=932"},"modified":"2016-01-21T12:03:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T12:03:42","slug":"50_years_of_lasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/50_years_of_lasers","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Lasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"250\" src=\"\/images\/NewsImages\/2010\/laser.jpg\" alt=\"babies with lasers\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2010 is the gold anniversary of the invention of the laser. In 1960, Theodore H. Maiman constructed the first functioning LASER &ndash; that is, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation &ndash; although laser technology had been theorised 43 years earlier by Albert Einstein. In fact, laser-like weapons like death rays existed in the public imagination and in science fiction even before Einstein&#8217;s theorisation.<\/p>\n<p>Upon their invention, lasers were dubbed, &ldquo;a solution looking for a problem&rdquo; and they have since found wide application from bloodless surgery, hair removal and industrial cutting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/office-machines-supplies\/printers-fax-machines\/laser-printers\">laser printing<\/a>, barcode scanning and, militarily, blinding enemy troops.<\/p>\n<p>Although for a long time popularly imagined as weapons, it is only in the last couple of years that an electric laser capable of destroying a tank or aircraft has been developed by Northrop Grumman.<\/p>\n<p>In the stationery world, laser pointers are used to highlight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/meeting-presentation\/c-2637\">presentations<\/a>. In laser printers, a laser &ldquo;draws&rdquo; an electrostatic image on a drum to which toner powder is attracted. The drum distributes the toner on the Paper and fuser rollers melt the toner which fuses with the Paper fibres.<\/p>\n<p>\n        Paperstone sell a wide range of <a href=\"\/labels\/address-labels\/l-6768\">Laser printing labels<\/a> for your home and office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 2010 is the gold anniversary of the invention of the laser. In 1960, Theodore H. Maiman constructed the first functioning LASER &ndash; that is, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation &ndash; although laser technology had been theorised 43 years earlier by Albert Einstein. 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