From phone lines and videodiscs to surgical procedures and optical computing - the laser is one of the most important inventions to come along during this half of the 20th Century. This book gives you this opportunity to investigate, first hand, a relatively new and evolving science. With this book you can create and experiment with simple to advanced-level lasers that have real, practical applications!
Gordon McComb has written more than 60 books and thousands of magazine articles--more than a million copies of his books are in print, in more than a dozen languages. He's has been called "The father of hobby robotics" by MAKE Magazine.
For 13 years, Gordon wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column on computers, which reached several million readers worldwide. He's still a regular contributor to SERVO Magazine, and most recently completed seven years as writer of their popular Robotics Resources column.
