Fishing with a Green Laser

GTE Sylvania Incorporated1969

Science History Institute
Philadelphia, United States

Color print advertisement for Sylvania General Telephone and Electronics Company depicting the trajectory of green laser lights reflecting off of a school of fish. The advertisement text describes the company's development of a green light laser that uses an Nd:YAG (neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet) crystal as the gain medium, rather than argon gas.

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Title: Fishing with a Green Laser
Creator: GTE Sylvania Incorporated
Date Created: 1969
Provenance: Science History Institute
Subject Keywords: lasers, electrooptics, rare earths
Rights: No Known Copyright
External Link: View our digital collections
Medium: paper

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