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Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 9 Story 3 - 16/5/2010

Charles H. Townes’ statue

As Charles H. Townes recalls [3], he was sitting on a park bench in Franklin Park, Washington DC, USA, when he got the inspiration for the amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
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Charles H. Townes’ statue. As Charles H. Townes recalls [3], he was sitting on a park bench in Franklin Park, Washington DC, USA, when he got the inspiration for the amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.