This is a list of laser types, their operational wavelengths, and their applications. Thousands of kinds of laser are known, but most of them are used only for specialized research.
Overview
Gas lasers
Chemical lasers
Used as directed-energy weapons.
Dye lasers
Metal-vapor lasers
Solid-state lasers
Semiconductor lasers
Other types of lasers
See also Laser construction List of laser articles Maser producing or amplifying a coherent microwave beam X-ray laser producing a coherent x-ray or EUV beam Atom laser producing a coherent beam of atoms Gravity laser, a hypothetical concept of producing coherent gravitation waves
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