Thursday, February 16, 2012

History

Theoretically, the assumption of the maser was declared by Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov from Lebedev Institute of Physics at an All-Union Conference on Radio-Spectroscopy captivated by USSR Academy of Sciences in May 1952.

The after-effects were after appear in October 1954. A forerunner of the maser was the aboriginal appearance additional hydrogen accessory congenital and activated by physicists Theodor V. Ionescu and Vasile Mihu in 1946. Independently, Charles H. Townes, J. P. Gordon, and H. J. Zeiger congenital the aboriginal ammonia maser at Columbia University in 1953. The accessory acclimated angry discharge in a beck of activated ammonia molecules to aftermath addition of microwaves at a abundance of 24 gigahertz.

Townes after formed with Arthur L. Schawlow to call the assumption of the optical maser, or laser, which Theodore H. Maiman aboriginal approved in 1960. For their analysis in this acreage Townes, Basov, and Prokhorov were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.

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