{"id":4314,"date":"2024-11-14T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T16:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4314"},"modified":"2024-11-14T10:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T16:33:19","slug":"november-14-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4314","title":{"rendered":"November 14, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On November 14, 1967, Theodore H. Maiman received U.S. Patent No. 3,353,115, on a Ruby Laser System &#8212; the first functioning laser:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-15.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"502\" height=\"774\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-15.png 502w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/image-15-195x300.png 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In April 1957 Jun-ichi Nishizawa proposed the concept of a &#8220;semiconductor optical maser.&#8221; Charles H. Townes and Arthur Leonard Schawlow of Bell Labs began work the same year on &#8220;optical masers,&#8221; and filed a patent application in 1958.  At a conference in 1959, Gordon Gould coined the term &#8220;LASER&#8221; in the paper he presented &#8220;The LASER, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.&#8221;  However, it was Theodore H. Maiman who operated the first functioning laser on May 16, 1960, at Hughes Research Laboratories, ahead pf Townes, Schawlow, and Gould.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 14, 1967, Theodore H. Maiman received U.S. Patent No. 3,353,115, on a Ruby Laser System &#8212; the first functioning laser: In April 1957 Jun-ichi Nishizawa proposed the concept of a &#8220;semiconductor optical maser.&#8221; Charles H. Townes and Arthur &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=4314\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patent-of-the-day"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4314\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}