Family Quote by Donna Strickland

My PhD project was actually doing something that required a high-intensity laser. It was supposed to work in a way that many, many photons…

— Donna Strickland

We proved that we could increase laser intensity by orders of magnitude. In fact, CPA led to the most intense laser pulses ever recorded.…

— Donna Strickland

Initially, the laser was called an invention looking for a job.

— G. Harry Stine

The late Richard Feynman, a superb physicist, said once as we talked about the laser that the way to tell a great idea is…

— Charles Hard Townes

It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already known by somebody 25 years before…

— Charles H. Townes

A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream…

— Al Ries

“I do wonder what being illuminated by scattered high powered industrial LASER light does to the human.”

— Steven Magee

“A 1-watt laser is an extremely dangerous thing. It’s not just powerful enough to blind you—it’s capable of burning skin and setting things on…

— Randall Munroe

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

— Steven Chu

What the ultrafast laser does is that because it doesn't have to just cut from the surface, it's only at the intense focal point…

— Donna Strickland

The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather…

— Denton Cooley

When I started on my research, I never expected I could invent the LED and laser diode.

— Shuji Nakamura