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> with some microwave oven guts duct taped to a satellite tv dish

The word you're looking for is "maser."



I think microwave ovens usually use mangetrons rather than masers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavity_magnetron

It's true though that both of them are coherent microwave sources. And the magnetron is arguabbly more "laser-like" than a maser.




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