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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828730503321

Titolo

Proceedings of the John Hall Symposium [[electronic resource] ] : in honor of John Hall on the occasion of his 70th birthday : University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, 13-15 August 2004 / / editor, James C. Bergquist ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2006

ISBN

981-277-384-3

Descrizione fisica

xxxviii, 158 p. : ill., ports

Altri autori (Persone)

BergquistJames Charles

HallJ. L <1934-> (John L.)

Disciplina

530.092

Soggetti

Frequency standards

Laser pulses, Ultrashort

Measurement

Nonlinear optics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Laser Works at Boulder Laboratories in the Early Sixties (A Bement); Optical Cavities and Gravity -- Wave Detectors (R Drever); Converting Photons to Decibels -- Travels with John Hall in Quantum Optics Land (H J Kimble); Funny Lineshapes in Saturated Absorption Spectroscopy (E Arimondo); Reeta Vyas and Surendra Singh, The Hidden Side of a Laser Beam (J W Moore); Gaining Control in Quantum Optics (H A Bachor); Following the Path Blazed by Jan Hall (L Hollberg); When Physics Rules Robotics (M Siegel); The Optical Calcium Frequency Standard of PTB (U Sterr et al.); Jan's Greatest Gifts to My Scientific Career (J Ye); and other papers.

Sommario/riassunto

Offers brief and personal glimpses of some of John L Hall's achievements, the research he inspired, and the great friendships he has built. This book talks about John's contribution to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique.