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Einstein's Legacy Applets
Applets demonstrating X-rays, CAT scans, Microwave ovens, LASERs, TV screens and Laptop screens all from the physics 2000 website
Coherent Light
Coherence is one of the unique properties of laser light. It arises from the stimulated emission process which provides the amplification.
Introduction to Optical Tweezers
An explanation of how optical tweezers work, and how to set up and calibrate your own. A quite detailed but clear introduction to this use of lasers.
Steven Chu
Steven Chu (1948 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 along with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nicolaas Bloembergen (1910 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1981 along with Arthur Leonard Schawlow for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy.
Arthur L. Schawlow
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1911 - 1999 ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1981 along with Nicolaas Bloembergen for their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy.
Classic Two-Slit Experiment
A well described page explaining Young's double slit experiment. There is a very good multimedia example of this effect - showing the interference pattern produced by a laser shining through two ...
William D. Phillips
William D. Phillips (1948 - ) received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 along with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
Charles Hard Townes
Charles Hard Townes (1911 - ) received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1964 along with Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov for the invention of the maser and the laser.
Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov
Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov (1911 - ) received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1964 along with Charles Hard Townes and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov for the invention of the maser and the laser.