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navigation, search Laser pointers  Many scientific, military,
medical and commercial laser applications have been developed
since the invention of the laser in 1958. The coherency, high
monochromaticity, and ability to reach extremely high powers are
all properties which allow for these specialized applications.
In science, lasers are used in many ways, including:  Lasers may
also be indirectly used in spectroscopy as a micro-sampling
system, a technique termed Laser ablation (LA), which is
typically applied to ICP-MS apparatus resulting in the powerful
LA-ICP-MS.  The principles of laser spectroscopy are discussed
by Demtröder[1] and the use of tunable lasers in spectroscopy
are described in Tunable Laser Applications.[2]   Most types of
laser are an inherently pure source of light; they emit near-
monochromatic light with a very well defined range of
wavelengths. By careful design of the laser