Oral history interview with Peter E. Tannenwald and H. J. Zeiger, 1986 January 8.

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Oral history interview with Peter E. Tannenwald and H. J. Zeiger, 1986 January 8.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81574303

Joint interview with Herbert J. Zeiger. Tannenwald and Zeiger comment on a program to create a Raman maser, which they began independently of work at Hughes Aircraft Company, in ca. 1962. They also mention Department of Defense interest in Raman lasers for high-power applications and the struggle to understand the physics behind these lasers in the mid-1960s.

Notes, 3 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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