POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Surprise! : Re: Surprise! Server Time
11 Oct 2024 15:22:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Surprise!  
From: Invisible
Date: 8 Nov 2007 08:08:56
Message: <47330a68@news.povray.org>
M_a_r_c wrote:

>> (I still can't figure out why you can use an oscilator to make radio 
>> waves, but not light rays...)
> 
> Is not a laser an excitated resonant optical cavity eg a oscillator?

Actually, I thought it was a tube full of extremely hot gas with some 
mirrors at the ends? (I don't know a huge amount about lasers.)


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