Optical Society Launches Laser Anniversary Video
(麻豆淫院Org.com) -- The Optical Society (OSA) today announced the release of the video Lasers: Transforming Life, a special anniversary video highlighting the importance of lasers and laser technology.
The video is being distributed as part of LaserFest, the science community鈥檚 year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first laser. Told in a compelling, yet easy-to-understand manner, Lasers: Transforming Life features an overview of how lasers play a role in everyday technologies, such as the Internet and laser surgery, and highlights laser research that may lead to future clean energy sources or help understand such mysteries as black holes. NPR host Ira Flatow is featured, along with video from NASA, DARPA and IBM, among others.
鈥淥SA created Lasers: Transforming Life as a way to educate the general public about the importance of lasers,鈥� said Beth T. Hampton, OSA鈥檚 chief marketing officer. 鈥淟asers have truly transformed the way we live today鈥攆rom fiber optics to computerized medical records. Yet even more exciting uses in the areas of alternative energy, medicine and basic research are on the horizon. We believe this video captures the excitement of this technology in a fitting tribute to the 50th anniversary of the laser.鈥�
Lasers: Transforming Life is publicly available on the .
Provided by Optical Society of America
