电子信息类专业英语（西电第二版）Unit 10 Lasers.pptVIP

Unit 10 Lasers Unit 10 Lasers Passage A What is a Laser? Passage B Introduction: Super-tool Passage C Lasers Passage A What is a Laser? 　　In H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, published in 1898, extraterrestrial aliens wreak destruction on our planet with their “heat ray”, a beam of energy so hot, so powerful, that it destroys anything it touches. “Suddenly there was a flash of light,” wrote Wells. “It was sweeping round swiftly and steadily, this flaming death, this invisible, inevitable sword of heat.” Wells’s heat ray, which inspired generations of science-fiction writers to im