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Light of the 21st Century

• 1978 ----- color ----- 52 min ----- 16mm
• Lasers are a billion dollar business with a significant impact on medicine, dentistry, construction, communication and other areas of human concern. At a laboratory in California, a giant laser has achieved the temperatures at the center of the sun--a step towards harnessing nuclear fusion, the sun's energy production process. In communications, engineers predict laser telephone traffic can be increased a million-fold.
• Topics: (Communications, Engineering, Physics)

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