Illuminating the substance with an external light source, as Maiman did, can also pump electrons. 梅曼表示，以外部光源照射物质，同样也可推送电子。
At Stanford, Maiman studied under the theoretician Willis Lamb, who received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1955, months after Maiman received his doctorate. 当然，经过多年的努力争取，梅曼的成就已经得到了广泛的承认。
