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Sergey N. Bagayev |
Director of the Institute of Laser Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia |
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Thomas M. Baer |
President of the Optical Society of America Executive Director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA |
"The Laser Past, Present, and Future: A Transformative Technology Based on Quantum Mechanics" |
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Herch M. Nussenzveig |
Professor of the University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
"Laser 50: from Mickey Mouse balloons to Living Cells" |