Oral history interview with Joseph Giordmaine, 1984 June 4 and 1985 May 31.

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Oral history interview with Joseph Giordmaine, 1984 June 4 and 1985 May 31.

Graduate and postgraduate work at Columbia University under Charles H. Townes, 1955-1961; the maser receiver for the Naval Research Laboratory. The early quantum electronics conferences at Schwanga Lodge (1959), Berkeley (1961) and Puerto Rico (1965). Nonlinear optics researches at Bell Laboratories and Munich's Technische Hochschule, 1961 to about 1968; optical parametric oscillators. Picosecond pulse measurement techniques.

Session one untranscribed, session two preliminary transcript.

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