Amazing Light [E-Book] : A Volume Dedicated To Charles Hard Townes On His 80th Birthday / edited by Raymond Y. Chiao.
This Festschrift is a collection of essays contributed by students, colleagues, and ad mirers to honor an eminent scholar on a special anniversary: Charles Hard Townes on the occasion of his 80th birthday, July 28, 1995. In 1964, Townes shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Alexander Mikhailovich...
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Personal Name(s): | Chiao, Raymond Y., editor |
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New York, NY :
Springer,
1996
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682 p. online resource. |
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englisch |
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9781461223788 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-1-4612-2378-8 |
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- 1 Introduction: Charles Townes as I Have Known Him
- 2 Methane Optical Frequency Standard
- 3 Mid-infrared Lines as Astrophysical Diagnostics: Two Decades of Problems and Promise
- 4 The Laser Stabilitron
- 5 Self-Regulated Star Formation in Molecular Clouds
- 6 Long-baseline Interferometric Imaging at 11 Microns with 30 Milliarcsecond Resolution
- 7 Ammonia in the Giant Planets
- 8 Collision Broadening and Radio-frequency Spectroscopy
- 9 Meeting Charles H. Townes
- 10 Population Inversion and Superluminality
- 11 The Autler-Townes Effect Revisited
- 12 Parity Nonconservation in Atoms and Searches for Permanent Electric Dipole Moments
- 13 Stark Dynamics and Saturation in Resonant Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy
- 14 A Raman Study of Fluorinated Ethanes Adsorbed on Zeolite NaX
- 15 Laser Light-scattering Spectroscopy of Supercooled Liquids and the Glass Transition
- 16 The Electronic Emission Spectra of Triatomic Hydrogen: The 6025? Bands of H2D and HD2
- 17 Limitations for Frequency-based Absolute Length Measurements
- 18 Microcavity Quantum Electrodynamics
- 19 Testimonial for Celebration of Professor Charles Townes’ 80th Birthday
- 20 Marine Physical Laboratory: A Brief History
- 21 Searching for the Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease
- 22 Radio and Infrared Spectroscopy of Interstellar Molecules
- 23 Lessons Learned
- 24 Infrared Spectroscopy of Jupiter in 1970 and in the 1990s
- 25 The Galactic Center: Star Formation and Mass Distribution in the Central Parsec
- 26 Microwave Spectroscopy, the Maser, and Radio Astronomy: Charles Townes at Columbia
- 27 The Role of Radioactive 14C and 26Al in the Ionization of Circumstellar Envelopes
- 28 The Clumpy Structure of Molecular Clouds
- 29 Spontaneous Emission Noise in Quantum Electronics
- 30 Possibility of Infrared Coronal Line Laser Emission in Seyfert Nuclei
- 31 Concepts of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Quantum Optics
- 32 Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Laser-polarized Noble Gases
- 33 Deterministic Order-Chaos Transition of Two Ions in a Paul Trap
- 34 Infrared Emission and H2O Masers around Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
- 35 Knowing Charlie: In the 1950s and Since
- 36 The SH Radical: Laboratory Detection of its $$J = \frac{3}{2} \leftarrow \frac{1}{2}$$ Rotational Transition
- 37 Charlie Townes at Brookhaven
- 38 Classical Theory of Measurement: A Big Step Towards the Quantum Theory of Measurement
- 39 The Physics of Nerve Excitation
- 40 The Future of Science Education
- 41 Noncoherent Feedback in Space Masers and Stellar Lasers
- 42 Application of Millisecond Pulsar Timing to the Long-term Stability of Clock Ensembles
- 43 Some Security Implications of Growing Electricity Demand for the Use of Nuclear Power in East Asia
- 44 Dynamic Control of the Photon Statistics in the Micromaser and Laser
- 45 Sgr A* — A Starving Black Hole?
- 46 Infrared Semiconductor Laser by Means of J x H Force Excitation of Electrons and Holes
- 47 From Laser Beam Filamentation to Optical Solitons: The Influence of C. H. Townes on the Development of Modern Nonlinear Optics
- 48 Industrial Research in Today’s World
- 49 Far-infrared Imaging of the HII Region-Molecular Cloud Complex W51A with a Balloon-borne Telescope
- 50 Charles Townes: The Scientist and the Person
- 51 Neutron Spin Reorientation Experiments
- 52 An Appreciative Response to Townes on Science and Religion
- 53 The Academic Ivory Tower Under Siege
- 54 The Correlated Spontaneous Emission Maser Gyroscope
- 55 Astronomical, Atmospheric, and Wavefront Studies with a Submillimeter-wavelength Interferometer
- 56 Theory of an Optical Subharmonic Generator
- 57 Hydrogen Masers and Lasers in Space
- 58 Beyond the South Pole
- 59 Townes and Nonlinear Optics
- 60 Spectral Observations of the Molecular Cloud Orion S
- 61 A Visit to America
- 62 Review of Some Photothermal Effects
- 63 Dark Matter and Faint Galactic Halo Light
- 64 Optical Pump-Probe Experiments and the Higgs Field.