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By
Jeff Hecht
Description
This 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.
Audience
Scientists and engineers working with lasers, historians of science.
Contents
Contents (List of those interviewed): C.H. Townes, Infared and Optical Masers. A.L. Schawlow, Origins of the Laser. N. Bloembergen, Masers
and Nonlinear Optics. G. Gould, Another View of Laser Development. T.H. Maiman, The First Laser. P. Sorokin, The Second Laser and the
Dye Laser. A. Javan, The Helium-Neon Laser. R.N. Hall, The Semiconductor Laser. C.K.N. Patel, The Carbon-Dioxide Laser. W. Bridges, The
Ion Laser. W.T. Silfvast, Metal-Vapor Lasers. J.J. Ewing, Excimer Lasers. J.M.J. Madey, The Free-Election Laser. D.L. Matthews, The X-Ray
Laser. Index.
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Hardbound, 298 pages, publication date: DEC-1991
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-336030-4
ISBN-10: 0-12-336030-7
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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