The Laser Inventor

Author : Theodore H. Maiman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319619403
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laser Inventor written by Theodore H. Maiman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these engaging memoirs of a maverick, Theodore H. Maiman describes the life events leading to his invention of the laser in 1960. Maiman succeeded using his expertise in physics and engineering along with an ingenious and elegant design not anticipated by others. His pink ruby laser produced mankind’s first-ever coherent light and has provided transformational technology for commerce, industry, telecom, the Internet, medicine, and all the sciences. Maiman also chronicles the resistance from his employer and the ongoing intrigue by competing researchers in industry and academia seeking to diminish his contribution in inventing the first laser. This work will appeal to a wide readership, from physicists and engineers through science enthusiasts to general readers. The volume includes extensive photos and documentary materials related to Maiman’s life and accomplishments never before published. "No one beat Maiman to the laser. How important is the laser? How important are all lasers? That is how important we have to regard Maiman’s contribution.He and the laser changed all of our lives, everyone’s!"Dr. Nick Holonyak, Jr., Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics, University of Illinois at Champaigne-Urbana, and inventor of the light-emitting diode (LED) and co-inventor of the transistor laser "More than five decades later, we can safely conclude that Theodore Maiman's groundbreaking discovery changed the world. Our modern life just as scientific research would be quite different without the laser."Dr. Ferenc Krausz, Director, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany, and Professor of Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, and pioneer in attosecond lasers and attophysics "Maiman had the stroke of genius needed to take a different approach [from his competitors]. The sheer elegance and simplicity of his design belies the intellectual achievement it represents. If his invention seems obvious to some today, it was far from obvious in 1960."Jeff Hecht, authoritative science writer on the historical development of the laser, author of books on lasers and fiber optics

Author : Nick Taylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743213211
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laser written by Nick Taylor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-01-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating true story of Gordon Gould's successful thirty-year struggle to assert himself as the rightful inventor of the laser -- and a myth-shattering, behind-the-scenes account of the American patent process.The insight struck Gould with the force of revelation. He sat bolt upright in bed, marveling at its perfection. Soon he was at his desk, writing at the top of a page in his laboratory notebook, "Some rough calculations on the feasibility of a "Laser": Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation."So began the invention of the laser in 1957, a machine that changed industry, medicine and science, and much of modern life. Gordon Gould was a graduate student with a checkered past and a yen to invent, but he had a blind spot when it came to patent rights. And when a respected professor with an office next to Gould's electrified the scientific world with his own claims on the laser, Gould was in for the fight of a lifetime.For the next thirty years, Gould battled the U.S. Patent Office and manufacturers to enforce his rights as the laser's inventor. Rebuffed, he was even denied security clearance to work on his own in

Author : Edwin Brit Wyckoff
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1464611211
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Invented the Laser written by Edwin Brit Wyckoff and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maiman was a graduate of the University of Colorado, which awarded him a B.S. in engineering physics in 1949. Later, he received his Ph.D. in physics in 1955 from Stanford University and began work at the Hughes Research Laboratory (HRL). There he concentrated on creating a device capable of converting mixed frequency electromagnetic radiation into highly amplified and coherent light of discrete frequency. Maiman later found that the accepted calculations of the fluorescence quantum efficiency of ruby were wrong and that the material could be used for his research. His persistence with ruby eventually paid off, for on May 16, 1960, the device he built using it became the world's first operable laser.

Author : Edwin Brit Wyckoff
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780766028487
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laser Man written by Edwin Brit Wyckoff and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Theodore H. Maiman, the engineer who invented the laser.

Author : Mario Bertolotti
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781420033403
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Laser written by Mario Bertolotti and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the invention of the first working laser in 1960, development of these devices has progressed at an unprecedented rate, to the extent that the laser is now a common part of everyday life, from the semiconductor laser used in CD players and telecommunication systems to the high power eximer lasers used in manufacturing processes. This book tra

Author : Laura Garwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226284166
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Century of Nature written by Laura Garwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century were first reported in the journal Nature. A Century of Nature brings together in one volume Nature's greatest hits—reproductions of seminal contributions that changed science and the world, accompanied by essays written by leading scientists (including four Nobel laureates) that provide historical context for each article, explain its insights in graceful, accessible prose, and celebrate the serendipity of discovery and the rewards of searching for needles in haystacks.

Author : Edwin Brit Wyckoff
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766041387
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Invented the Laser written by Edwin Brit Wyckoff and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maiman was a graduate of the University of Colorado, which awarded him a B.S. in engineering physics in 1949. Later, he received his Ph.D. in physics in 1955 from Stanford University and began work at the Hughes Research Laboratory (HRL). There he concentrated on creating a device capable of converting mixed frequency electromagnetic radiation into highly amplified and coherent light of discrete frequency. Maiman later found that the accepted calculations of the fluorescence quantum efficiency of ruby were wrong and that the material could be used for his research. His persistence with ruby eventually paid off, for on May 16, 1960, the device he built using it became the world's first operable laser.

Author : Mohammad D. Al-Amri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319319035
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optics in Our Time written by Mohammad D. Al-Amri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Light and light based technologies have played an important role in transforming our lives via scientific contributions spanned over thousands of years. In this book we present a vast collection of articles on various aspects of light and its applications in the contemporary world at a popular or semi-popular level. These articles are written by the world authorities in their respective fields. This is therefore a rare volume where the world experts have come together to present the developments in this most important field of science in an almost pedagogical manner. This volume covers five aspects related to light. The first presents two articles, one on the history of the nature of light, and the other on the scientific achievements of Ibn-Haitham (Alhazen), who is broadly considered the father of modern optics. These are then followed by an article on ultrafast phenomena and the invisible world. The third part includes papers on specific sources of light, the discoveries of which have revolutionized optical technologies in our lifetime. They discuss the nature and the characteristics of lasers, Solid-state lighting based on the Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology, and finally modern electron optics and its relationship to the Muslim golden age in science. The book’s fourth part discusses various applications of optics and light in today's world, including biophotonics, art, optical communication, nanotechnology, the eye as an optical instrument, remote sensing, and optics in medicine. In turn, the last part focuses on quantum optics, a modern field that grew out of the interaction of light and matter. Topics addressed include atom optics, slow, stored and stationary light, optical tests of the foundation of physics, quantum mechanical properties of light fields carrying orbital angular momentum, quantum communication, and Wave-Particle dualism in action.

Author : Theodore H. Maiman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laser Odyssey written by Theodore H. Maiman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joan Lisa Bromberg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262023184
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laser in America, 1950-1970 written by Joan Lisa Bromberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Joan Lisa Bromberg brings a historian's broad perspective to bear on the formative years of laser research in the United States.