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Lasers

"Lasers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An optical source that emits photons in a coherent beam. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (LASER) is brought about using devices that transform light of varying frequencies into a single intense, nearly nondivergent beam of monochromatic radiation. Lasers operate in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet, or X-ray regions of the spectrum.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Lasers" by people in this website by year, and whether "Lasers" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 55 publications over 25 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2006
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