[DOC] [TLE] Maser - Wikipedia [PAR] A maser is a device that produces coherent electromagnetic waves through 
amplification by stimulated emission. The first maser was built by Charles H. 
Townes, James P. Gordon, and H. J. .... Maser-like stimulated emission has also 
been observed in nature from interstellar space, and it is frequently called "
superradiant... [DOC] [TLE] J! Archive - Show #2047, aired 1993-06-29 [PAR] A box of 64 Crayola crayons has one of these devices "built-in" ... First built in 
1960, it's also been called an optical maser... [DOC] [TLE] LaserFest | Early History [PAR] Dr. Theodore Maiman of Hughes Research Laboratories, with the first ... 
Theodore Maiman developed the first working laser at Hughes Research Lab in 
1960, and ... Since then, more than 55,000 patents involving the laser have been 
granted in ... findings and submitted a patent application for the so-called optical 
maser. [DOC] [TLE] A History Of The Laser: A Trip Through The Light ... - Photonics.com [PAR] The laser would not have been possible without an understanding that light ... its 
energy in chunks, in this case discrete quantum particles now called photons. ... 
14, 1957: Townes sketches an early optical maser in his lab notebook. ..... s 
Photonics Technology Lab in Santa Clara, Calif., announce that they have built 
the first... [DOC] [TLE] A Story of Invention: the Laser | Intellectual Ventures Laboratory [PAR] Mar 11, 2013 ... In 1953, Townes produced the first maser (microwave amplification by ... In 1955, 
Basov and Prokhorov designed and built oscillators, and ... at Bell Labs where 
they developed a concept called an optical maser, ... May 16th 1960, Maiman 
operated the first functioning laser (capable of pulsed operation*). [DOC] [TLE] Physics History - American Physical Society [PAR] May 16, 1960: Maiman Builds First Working Laser. ... The theoretical 
underpinnings of the laser had been around for many years. ... In 1953, Charles 
Townes patented a device he called a maser, ... Ultimately he held patents not 
just for his first laser, but also related to masers, laser displays, optical scanning, 
and laser... [DOC] [TLE] The Nobel prize-winning inventor of the laser dies at 99 - The Verge [PAR] Jan 29, 2015 ... Townes had been hitting his head against the problem without success, when, 
seated upon the ... Townes first called the concept an "optical maser. ... The first 
laser was built in 1960 by Theodore H. Maiman, as research teams across the ... 
They've also had a huge cultural impact on our collective psyche. [DOC] [TLE] 55th anniversary of the laser's invention  International Year of Light ... [PAR] May 27, 2015 ... It was on 16 May 1960, that the North American physicist and engineer, ... who 
carry out research in the field of optics and other scientific fields, but also ... 
However, the laser is of great importance not only due to its numerous ... that the 
first working laser had been built in their company and called a press... [DOC] [TLE] From Maser to Laser - Bell Labs [PAR] Townes knew that as the wavelength of microwave radiation grew shorter, its ... 
Then he went back to his hotel and told his idea to Schawlow, who also was in ... 
Arthur L. Schawlow adjusts a ruby optical maser during an experiment at Bell 
Labs, .... First built in 1960, lasers now range in size from semiconductor lasers 
as... [DOC] [TLE] The Development of Lasers - The Photophone and Early Theories of ... [PAR] Most of the ideas that led to its invention were the results of attempts by scientists 
to ... The first important attempt to get light to perform a task that lasers perform 
today ... Bell also had to contend with the fact that scientists at that time still did 
not know .... he called an "optical maser" (the term laser not yet having been 
coined). [DOC] [TLE] The Laser at (About) 40 - Scientific American [PAR] FIRST LASER, based on a crystal of ruby encased in a flash tube, was built by ...

Question: First built in 1960, it's also been called an optical maser
Answer: laser