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The history of the laser [electronic resource] / Mario Bertolotti.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Bertolotti, Mario
Other title:	Storia del laser. English
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English Italian
Published:	Bristol, UK ; Philadelphia, PA : Institute of Physics, ©2005.
Subjects:	Lasers > History. Masers > History. Nonlinear optics > History. Lasers. Masers. Nonlinear optics. History.

Table of 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.