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SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context
VIAFrevised2015-09-18machineCPF merge programMerge v2.0revised2016-08-11T23:47:08machineSNAC EAC-CPF ParserBulk ingest into SNAC Databaserevised2016-08-11T23:47:08humanSystem Service (system@localhost)created2024-03-28machineSNAC EAC-CPF SerializerSNAC Identity Constellation serialized to EAC-CPFpersonJavan, Ali, 1926-....presumedJavan, Alipresumed1926-12-26Faust, Walter Luck, 1934-Hecht, Jeff,Helmer, John, 1926-Javan, Ali, 1926-....Hecht, Jeff,. Laser pioneer interviews, 1985-1986.Hecht, Jeff,Bloembergen, N.Gould, Gordon, 1920-2005.Javan, Ali, 1926-Leith, Emmett N.L'Esperance, Francis A., 1932-Matthews, Dennis L.Patel, C. Kumar N.Sorokin, Peter P.Laser pioneer interviews, 1985-1986.1.5 linear feet (3 boxes), including 23 (60 minute) cassettes.Audio tapes and original transcripts of ten interviews conducted by Jeff Hecht with pioneers of laser and laser applications research. Pioneers of laser research: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Gordon Gould (two interviews), Robert N. Hall, Ali Javan, Dennis Matthews, C. Kumar N. Patel, William Silvast, and Peter Sorokin. Pioneers of laser applications research: Emmet Leith and Francis L'Esperance. Topics include: background and education of all interviewees; nuclear magnetic resonance, nonlinear optics, spectroscopy, laser applications, American Physical Society Report on Directed Energy Weapons (Bloembergen); patents, optical communications, copper-vapor lasers, mercury-vapor lasers (Gould); semiconductor lasers, General Electric (Hall); synthetic aperture radar, Willow Run Laboratory, optical signal processing, holography, optical computing (Leith); Bell Laboratories, molecular lasers, spin-flip Raman lasers, atmospheric pollutants, spectroscopy, ozone depletion, American Physical Society Study on Directed Energy Weapons (Patel); Radio Corporation of America, helium-neon laser, classical oscillators at optical frequencies (Javan); opthamology, laser photocoagulation, diabetic retinopathy (L'Esperance); soft x-ray laser, Nova Fusion Laser, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Matthews); University of Utah, metal-vapor lasers, short-wavelength lasers, helium cadmium laser, Bell Labs (Silvast); Maiman's first laser, dye lasers, two photon lasers, and spectroscopy (Sorokin). The collection also includes 22 issues of the journal Lasers and Applications (1985-86). Edited versions of all of the interviews (excepting Gould's second interview) were published in eight of these issues (January, February, March, July, October, November 1985, and April and May 1986); the remaining issues include interviews with laser and laser applications pioneers which are not part of this collection. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr LibraryHelmer, John, 1926-. Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1986.Helmer, John, 1926-Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1986.7 pp.Letter to Joan Bromberg, director of the Laser History Project, responding to questionnaire. Helmer discusses his graduate work in electrical engineering at Stanford University's Microwave Laboratory with Willis Lamb, and at Columbia University with T. C. Wang, Ali Javan, and Koichi Shimoda on ammonia masers; his employment by Varian Associates, where he worked with Bob Jepsen and Koichi Shimoda on noise properties of the maser amplifier for the Army Signal Corps. He also describes his History of the Ammonia Maser and some of the work done at RCA Research Laboratories in Princeton, N.J. File also includes a copy of the survey questionnaire and Helmer's brief answers. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr LibraryFaust, Walter Luck, 1934-. Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.Faust, Walter Luck, 1934-Response to Laser History Project Survey, 1983.11 pp.File includes a six-page typed response to questionnaire with discussion of Faust's experience working with Ali Javan and Bill Bennett at Bell Laboratories on gas population inversion; Faust also discusses work at the Naval Research Laboratory where he worked on the development of synchronous modelocked lasers as sources of coincident pulse pairs, with the two pulse pairs having independently choosable frequencies. File also includes correspondence clarifying some points in his survey response. Recipients were asked to discuss their education, their activities preceding their ivolvement with lasers, their work during the Second World War, their entry into the field of lasers, their scientific achievements, their work as laboratory administrators, their work in the laser industry, and their work as journal editors or society officers. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library