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- 1917
Einstein first proposes the “Stimulated Emission” phenomenon that makes lasers possible
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- 1951
Charles Townes conceives the M.A.S.E.R. (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation)
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- 1957
Townes, Schawlow, and Gould lay the groundwork for the “optical maser” that later becomes known as the “laser”
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- 1960
Theodore Maiman builds the first laser at the Hughes Research facility
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- 1961
N. Holonyak Jr. invents the semiconductor laser which later becomes a core building block of the fiber laser
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- 1962
E. Snitzer invents the Nd:Glass laser which later becomes part of the core architecture of the fiber laser
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- 1964
The movie Goldfinger brings lasers into the pop culture and visualizes industrial laser cutting for the first time
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- 1964
C.K. Patel invents the high power CO2 laser but at large sizes and alignments that limit rugged transport
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- 1970
Fiber optic cable made of corning glass allows long distance, low loss transmission of laser power
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- 1974
The bar code scanner is introduced and first used to ring up a pack of Wrigley gum
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- 1977
Live telephone traffic is sent through fiber optic cables in downtown Chicago
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- 1978
Laser Disk hits market as the first commercial optical disc storage medium
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- 1980
M. Ross and R. Rice invent diode pumped laser which later becomes part of the core architecture of the fiber laser
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- 1980
Chu, Cohen-Tannoudji, and Phillips work with laser cooling of atoms that wins them the 1997 Nobel Prize
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- 1982
Compact Discs, the next iteration of laserdisc technology, extends playing time, sampling rate and linear resolution
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- 1994
Lasers used for remote sensing resolution in oilfields
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- 1995
M. Zediker and R. Rice demonstrate first high power fiber laser
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- 1996
DVD introduced, providing much more storage in the same size as the compact disc
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- 1997
Ramona Graves finds that lasers can achieve a number of basic rock destruction mechanisms
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- 2003
Gapontsev and IPG enters market with high power fiber lasers
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- 2009
Foro Energy launched by Joel Moxley, Mark Land, and Mark Zediker
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foro
- FORO’S 1st ACHIEVEMENT
High power, long distance fiber transmission without SBS / step change in launched laser power
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foro
- FORO’S 2nd ACHIEVEMENT
High power fiber transmission at telecom efficiency / step change in delivered laser power at long distance
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foro
- FORO’S 3rd ACHIEVEMENT
High power fiber optic cable field packaging / step change in delivered laser power in field
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foro
- FORO’S 4th ACHIEVEMENT
High power optical slip ring for spooling / step change in delivered laser power through rotating joint
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foro
- FORO’S 5th ACHIEVEMENT
High power connector for field use / step change in delivered laser power without water cooling
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foro
- FORO’S 6th ACHIEVEMENT
High power hardware demonstrated in field / step change in delivered laser power in field
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foro
- FORO’S 7th ACHIEVEMENT
Sustained laser drilling of ultra-hard rock / step change in continuously removed rock volume
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foro
- FORO’S 8th ACHIEVEMENT
High power laser fluid jet / step change in delivered laser power to surface in fluid jet
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