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What colour of light did Theodore Maimanās ruby laser produce?
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Theodore Maimanās ruby laser, which he successfully operated on May 16, 1960, produced pulses of red light. Maiman achieved this by using a flash lamp to excite chromium atoms within a synthetic ruby crystal.12