Townes and Schawlow worked out the theoretical underpinnings of an “optical maser” and applied for a patent on the idea in 1958. Gordon Gould in 1950. Source: American Institute of Physics ...

Two years later, Townes and Schawlow were granted a patent for their "optical Maser." However, there was an outlier named Gordon Gould, a chain-smoking communist who was the rakish counterpart to ...

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∙MASERS. “Another important application of solid-state physics, the optical maser. has come from Bell Laboratories. The principle of atoms being raised to excited states by absorption of ...

Again, the term 'laser' was not used. Instead, their paper was entitled 'Population Inversion and Continuous Optical Maser Oscillation in a Gas Discharge Containing a He–Ne Mixture'. Ali Javan ...

I wanted to know if my maser could go to optical wavelengths and so I consulted my brother-in-law, Arthur Schawlow, who was also working at Bell Labs at the time. When we realized it might be ...

Optical fingerprint scanners are the oldest method of capturing and comparing fingerprints. As the name suggests, this technique relies on capturing an optical image — essentially a photograph.

The idea of optical computing—the use of photons instead of electrons to perform computational operations—has been around for decades. However, interest has resurged in recent years ...

Adtran today launched its Oscilloquartz Time Scale System, developed to meet the precise timekeeping requirements of national ...

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The Oscilloquartz Time Scale System delivers exceptional timekeeping by integrating up to eight different clock types, including optical cesium atomic clocks, hydrogen maser clocks and GNSS ...