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Event Details
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010
6:00pm: Networking/Light Dinner
7:00pm: Presentation
8:30pm: Adjourn
Cost: free
Title
Half a Century of Lasers - how it all got started
Speaker
Jeff Hecht
Abstract
The laser's conceptual roots go back to Albert Einstein's idea
of stimulated emission, but the action didn't start until
the invention of the microwave maser in the 1950s. The next logical
step was to the higher frequencies of light waves,
but how to get there was a problem. Charles Townes formulated the
physics problem of how to build a laser. Then he and
Gordon Gould separately solved it on paper, launching a race to make
the laser that soon involved Bell Labs, ARPA,
Columbia University, IBM, American Optical, and other labs. The winner
of the race was a dark horse, Theodore Maiman of
Hughes Research Labs, with an elegant design that others replicated
within weeks of its disclosure, starting the laser
age. This talk will describe the laser race, and the dawn of the laser
age.
Biography
Jeff Hecht is the author of Beam: The Race to Make the Laser
(Oxford University Press, 2005), Understanding Lasers 3rd ed
(IEEE Press/Wiley 2008) and several other books. He is a contributing
editor to Laser Focus World, a correspondent for
New Scientist magazine, and writes regularly for Optics & Photonics
News. He holds a B.S. in electronic engineering
from Caltech, and has been writing about lasers since 1974.
When & Where
Applied Materials Bowers Cafeteria
3090 Bowers Ave
,
CA 95054
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM - Friday, May 21, 2010 at 8:00 PM (PT)
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Hosted By
IEEE SCV Photonics
IEEE Santa Clara Valley Photonics Society
The Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society, previously known as IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), is interested in lasers, optical devices, optical fibers, and associated lightwave technology and their research, development, design, manufacture, and applications in systems and subsystems. The Society is also concerned with the various scientific and technological activities which contribute to the useful expansion of the field.
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