Laser PioneersThis work presents the intriguing story of laser technology development through interviews with the scientists who made history with their groundbreaking research. Laser Pioneers, Revised Edition, describes a race for innovative laser technologies that resulted in several Nobel Prizes and one of the most bitter patent fights of the twentieth century. This book makes fascinating reading for anyone involved with physics, engineering, optics, lasers, or the history of science--or anyone simply interested in the process of invention.
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Contents
CHARLES H TOWNES Infrared and Optical Masers | 62 |
SCHAWLOW Origins of the Laser | 81 |
NICOLAAS BLOEMBERGEN Masers and Nonlinear Optics | 99 |
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