translation.en: In fact, the late Willard Boyle - a physicist who worked at Bell Labs, where the laser was invented in 1960, and who himself developed the first continuous laser (the first were pulsed) in 1962 - told us that initially the laser was rather seen as a "lab gadget."
translation.es: De hecho, como ya dijo el físico Willard Boyle, que trabajó en los laboratorios Bell, donde se inventó el láser en 1960, y que elaboró el primer láser continuo (los primeros eran pulsados) en 1962, al principio el láser era más bien considerado un "aparato de laboratorio".