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Never mind, Odingbat will cancel the program.
I hate it when so called science bits are so poorly written ( not your fault). It is NOT a friggin electric laser. The lasing medium is a crystal ( garnet ——first proof of lasing in solid state device used ruby). I guess what they are really trying to say is that the lasing can be initiated by electrical pulse or input from an eletrically driven device ( eg LED or laser diode). These is just a series of oscillators and has been the competing idea for a long time. Chemical lasers (aside from scalability and other issues) are just too darned tough to work with (even in the lab).
On Sharks?