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Amazing Light

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Charles Townes as I Have Known Him
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    Chapter 2 Methane Optical Frequency Standard
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    Chapter 3 Mid-infrared Lines as Astrophysical Diagnostics: Two Decades of Problems and Promise
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    Chapter 4 The Laser Stabilitron
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    Chapter 5 Self-Regulated Star Formation in Molecular Clouds
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    Chapter 6 Long-baseline Interferometric Imaging at 11 Microns with 30 Milliarcsecond Resolution
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    Chapter 7 Ammonia in the Giant Planets
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    Chapter 8 Collision Broadening and Radio-frequency Spectroscopy
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    Chapter 9 Meeting Charles H. Townes
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    Chapter 10 Population Inversion and Superluminality
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    Chapter 11 The Autler-Townes Effect Revisited
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    Chapter 12 Parity Nonconservation in Atoms and Searches for Permanent Electric Dipole Moments
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    Chapter 13 Stark Dynamics and Saturation in Resonant Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy
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    Chapter 14 A Raman Study of Fluorinated Ethanes Adsorbed on Zeolite NaX
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    Chapter 15 Laser Light-scattering Spectroscopy of Supercooled Liquids and the Glass Transition
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    Chapter 16 The Electronic Emission Spectra of Triatomic Hydrogen: The 6025Å Bands of H 2 D and HD 2
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    Chapter 17 Limitations for Frequency-based Absolute Length Measurements
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    Chapter 18 Microcavity Quantum Electrodynamics
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    Chapter 19 Testimonial for Celebration of Professor Charles Townes’ 80th Birthday
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    Chapter 20 Marine Physical Laboratory: A Brief History
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    Chapter 21 Searching for the Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease
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    Chapter 22 Radio and Infrared Spectroscopy of Interstellar Molecules
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    Chapter 23 Lessons Learned
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    Chapter 24 Infrared Spectroscopy of Jupiter in 1970 and in the 1990s
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    Chapter 25 The Galactic Center: Star Formation and Mass Distribution in the Central Parsec
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    Chapter 26 Microwave Spectroscopy, the Maser, and Radio Astronomy: Charles Townes at Columbia
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    Chapter 27 The Role of Radioactive 14 C and 26 Al in the Ionization of Circumstellar Envelopes
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    Chapter 28 The Clumpy Structure of Molecular Clouds
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    Chapter 29 Spontaneous Emission Noise in Quantum Electronics
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    Chapter 30 Possibility of Infrared Coronal Line Laser Emission in Seyfert Nuclei
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    Chapter 31 Concepts of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Quantum Optics
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    Chapter 32 Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Laser-polarized Noble Gases
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    Chapter 33 Deterministic Order-Chaos Transition of Two Ions in a Paul Trap
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    Chapter 34 Infrared Emission and H 2 0 Masers around Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
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    Chapter 35 Knowing Charlie: In the 1950s and Since
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    Chapter 36 The SH Radical: Laboratory Detection of its $$J = \frac{3}{2} \leftarrow \frac{1}{2}$$ Rotational Transition
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    Chapter 37 Charlie Townes at Brookhaven
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    Chapter 38 Classical Theory of Measurement: A Big Step Towards the Quantum Theory of Measurement
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    Chapter 39 The Physics of Nerve Excitation
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    Chapter 40 The Future of Science Education
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    Chapter 41 Noncoherent Feedback in Space Masers and Stellar Lasers
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    Chapter 42 Application of Millisecond Pulsar Timing to the Long-term Stability of Clock Ensembles
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    Chapter 43 Some Security Implications of Growing Electricity Demand for the Use of Nuclear Power in East Asia
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    Chapter 44 Dynamic Control of the Photon Statistics in the Micromaser and Laser
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    Chapter 45 Sgr A* — A Starving Black Hole?
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    Chapter 46 Infrared Semiconductor Laser by Means of J x H Force Excitation of Electrons and Holes
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    Chapter 47 From Laser Beam Filamentation to Optical Solitons: The Influence of C. H. Townes on the Development of Modern Nonlinear Optics
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    Chapter 48 Industrial Research in Today’s World
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    Chapter 49 Far-infrared Imaging of the HII Region-Molecular Cloud Complex W51A with a Balloon-borne Telescope
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    Chapter 50 Charles Townes: The Scientist and the Person
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    Chapter 51 Neutron Spin Reorientation Experiments
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    Chapter 52 An Appreciative Response to Townes on Science and Religion
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    Chapter 53 The Academic Ivory Tower Under Siege
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    Chapter 54 The Correlated Spontaneous Emission Maser Gyroscope
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    Chapter 55 Astronomical, Atmospheric, and Wavefront Studies with a Submillimeter-wavelength Interferometer
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    Chapter 56 Theory of an Optical Subharmonic Generator
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    Chapter 57 Hydrogen Masers and Lasers in Space
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    Chapter 58 Beyond the South Pole
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    Chapter 59 Townes and Nonlinear Optics
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    Chapter 60 Spectral Observations of the Molecular Cloud Orion S
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    Chapter 61 A Visit to America
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    Chapter 62 Review of Some Photothermal Effects
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    Chapter 63 Dark Matter and Faint Galactic Halo Light
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    Chapter 64 Optical Pump-Probe Experiments and the Higgs Field
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Title
Amazing Light
Published by
Springer New York, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-2378-8
ISBNs
978-1-4612-7521-3, 978-1-4612-2378-8
Editors

Chiao, Raymond Y.

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Country Count As %
Poland 1 8%
Unknown 11 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 42%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 17%
Researcher 2 17%
Student > Master 1 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 8%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 8 67%
Computer Science 1 8%
Unknown 3 25%