In 1974, after the Cultural Revolution ended, and things began to settle down, intellectuals regained their former positions. Prof. Ting was sent to the Shanghai Laser Research Institute, where he experimented with glass and steam lasers.
直到一九七四年，「文革」接近尾聲，混亂的局面稍稍穩定下來，大陸各地的知識份子紛紛調回正常的崗位上，丁勝懋也被分配到「中國科學院」的分支機構「上海激光（雷射）研究所」重新開始研究工作，先後做過玻璃雷射和蒸汽雷射的實驗。