# #Mon Aug 09 12:03:51 CEST 2010 BranchingPoint__Kse70KOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=Laser applications

BranchingPoint__Kse70KOdEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_subTitle=In modern everyday life, we come across with the laser for example when the barcode is scanned at the supermarket till or when we are playing CDs and DVDs.

Via a microspcopically thin glass fibre, a laser may transmit millions of telephone calls in parallel, and in medical techniques does it render minimal invasive operations possible.

Modern industrial fabrication is unthinkable without the laser, too.

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Source\: Siemens AG, CT MM, Munich