Wilson Prize article: From vacuum tubes to lasers and back again1
The first demonstration of an optical-wavelength laser by Theodore Maiman in 1960 had a transformational impact on the paths that would be blazed to advance the state of the art of short wavelength coherent electron beam-based radiation sources. Free electron lasers (FELs) emerged from these efforts...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.17.074901 |