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.
