The history of the laser / Mario Bertolotti.

  • Bertolotti, Mario.
Date:
[2005], ©2005
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About this work

Also known as

Storia del laser. English

Publication/Creation

Bristol, UK ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics, [2005], ©2005.

Physical description

viii, 307 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Notes

"Translated from Storia del laser by M. Bertolotti, Bollati Boringhieri 1999."

Contents

Wave and corpuscular theories of light -- Spectroscopy -- Blackbody radiation -- The Rutherford-Bohr Atom -- Einstein -- Einstein and light: the photoelectric effect and stimulated emission -- Microwaves -- Spectroscopy: Act II -- Magnetic resonance -- The maser -- The proposal for an optical maser -- The misfortune (or fortune?) of Gordon Gould -- And finally-the laser! -- A solution in search of a problem or many problems with the same solution? Applications of lasers.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-298) and index.

Language note

Translated from the Italian.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 0750309113