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Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. A means of creating coherent light by either driving an atomic or molecular transition in an optical cavity or firing a beam of electrons through an undulator.

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Can the phase of a light wave be measured experimentally?

Yes, since 2003 we can measure the electric field wave of (visible) light pulses using attosecond light pulses. You may have heard that the 2023 Nobel Prize for physics was awarded "for experimental m …
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