Science for Non-Science

Many readers are most probably aware of a training session named: Finance for Non-Finance. This is usually provided by companies for their non-finance middle and top management, with the declared purpose of ensuring that everybody understands the fundamentals of the finance world. After completing this training, everybody would be able to understand how the operation profit,…

Understanding lasers – Part 1

This is the first part of a series of presentations under the logo Science for Non-Science. It covers the fundamental phenomena of the laser physics: photon absorption and emission, energy lifetime, stimulated emission, inversion and various laser systems. The second part of this presentation will discuss the signal amplification, broadband light sources and lasers.