Talk:Laser science

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A very detailed tutorial on lasers

Domitori (130.153.147.57)

I replaced the dead link with a link to another laser document on that website. I'm not sure if this document is what was originally linked to, but it looks useful (and very detailed.)--Srleffler 15:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

More on Laser Physics

There should be moer information on laser physics.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Ironboy11 (talk • contribs) 21:02, 4 June 2009

"laser pressure", or the force exerted by a laser beam

There is a non-zero force, although small, exerted by a laser beam. But I don't see this concept explicated in the laser science article.

For example, in this paper (<ref name=ramos2001>{{cite web |title=Surface Roughness Enhancement of Indirect-SLS Metal Parts by Laser Surface Polishing |url=http://sffsymposium.engr.utexas.edu/Manuscripts/2001/2001-04-Ramos.pdf |publisher=University of Texas at Austin |year=2001 |access-date=2015-10-12 }}</ref>), the term "laser pressure" is used to describe the phenomenon.

My question for laser-knowledgeble editors is: to what article, or what section, in Wikipedia would we link to in order to make the concept a bit more accessible to the readers of this encyclopedia? It seems that maybe this article might be an appropriate place if we could find a description of the phenomenon of force exerted by a laser beam and then explicate it here. Cheers. N2e (talk) 22:30, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

That's covered at Radiation pressure. You may also be interested in Optical tweezers. Lasers can pull as well as push.

This article should be a broad survey of the whole field of laser science, with links to more specific articles. Topics such as radiation pressure should be mentioned, but not discussed in any detail here. (Not even though the article is at this point mostly empty.)--Srleffler (talk) 05:38, 13 October 2015 (UTC)