Oral history interview with Amnon Yariv, 1985 January 28.

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Oral history interview with Amnon Yariv, 1985 January 28.

Doctoral thesis on 2-level solid state masers at University of California at Berkeley, 1956-1959; beginnings of his work on integrated optics at California Institute of Technology, mid-1960s. Research at Bell Telephone Laboratories on noise, parametric amplifiers, doped crystal lasers, and semiconductor lasers, and his mode-locking studies at Watkins-Johnson and Lockheed. Role of consultancy at Hughes Aircraft Co. on research in phase-conjugated optics.

Transcript, 48 pp.

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