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SOME experiments with gas discharges in pure iodine, pure mercury and mercury-rare gas mixtures have led to the discovery of four new optical maser transitions in the near infra-red.
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RIGDEN, J., WHITE, A. Optical Maser Action in Iodine and Mercury Discharges. Nature 198, 774 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198774a0
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