Chiao R.Y. (ed.) Amazing Light: A Volume Dedicated to Charles Hard Townes on His 80th Birthday

Springer, 1996. - 682 pp.
This Festschrift is a collection of essays contributed by students, colleagues, and admirers to honor an eminent scholar on a special anniversary: Charles Hard Townes on the occasion of his 80th birthday, July 28, 1995. In 1964, Townes shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov and Nikolai Gennadyevich Basov "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle." His contributions have covered a much wider area, however. His fruitful interests spanning several decades have included many scientific subjects, including, microwave spectroscopy and astrophysics (other articles in this volume will expand further on this point). He has also contributed to public service, having served as the chairman of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee for NASA's Apollo program, and as a member and vice chairman of the President's Science Advisory Committee. As the enormous breadth of contributions from his students shows, he has educated scholars who are now in a wide range of fields. The contributions from his many admirers, among whom are nine fellow Nobel laureates, attest to his impact on many disciplines ranging from electrical engineering to medicine. His influence extends even to theology, as is indicated by one essay. The broadly international character of this Festschrift reflects his deep belief in the international, universal nature of science.Introduction: Charles Townes as I Have Known Him (by Arthur L. Schawlow).
Methane Optical Frequency Standard (by Nicolai G. Basov, Vladimir A. Alekseev, and Mikhail A. Gubin).
Mid-infrared Lines as Astrophysical Diagnostics: Two Decades of Problems and Promise (by Sara C. Beck).
The Laser Stabilitron (by William R. Bennett, Jr. and Vieniamin P. Chebotayev).
Self-Regulated Star Formation in Molecular Clouds (by Frank Bertoldi and Christopher F. McKee).
Long-baseline Interferometric Imaging at 11 Microns with 30 Milliarcsecond Resolution (by Manfred Bester and William C. Danchi).
Ammonia in the Giant Planets (by Albert L. Betz).
Collision Broadening and Radio-frequency Spectroscopy (by Brebis Bleaney).
Meeting Charles H. Townes (by Nicolaas Bloembergen).
Population Inversion and Superluminality (by Raymond Y. Chiao).
The Autler-Townes Effect Revisited (by Claude N. Cohen-Tannoudji).
Parity Nonconservation in Atoms and Searches for Permanent Electric Dipole Moments (by Eugene D. Commins).
Stark Dynamics and Saturation in Resonant Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (by David A. Coppeta, Paul L. Kelley, Patrick J. Harshman, T. Kenneth Gustafson, and Jean-Pierre E. Taran).
A Raman Study of Fluorinated Ethanes Adsorbed on Zeolite NaX (by Michael K. Crawford, David R. Corbin, and Robert J. Smalley).
Laser Light-scattering Spectroscopy of Supercooled Liquids and the Glass Transition (by Herman Z. Cummins).
The Electronic Emission Spectra of Triatomic Hydrogen: The 6025 A Bands of H₂D and HD₂ (by Izabel Dabrowski and Gerhard Herzberg).
Limitations for Frequency-based Absolute Length Measurements (by Michael Danos).
Microcavity Quantum Electrodynamics (by Francesco De Martini and Marco Giangrasso).
Testimonial for Celebration of Professor Charles Townes' 80th Birthday (by Sidney D. Drell).
Marine Physical Laboratory: A Brief History (by Carolyn L. Ebrahimi and Kenneth M. Watson).
Searching for the Cause of Alzheimer's Disease (by Gerald Ehrenstein).
Radio and Infrared Spectroscopy of Interstellar Molecules (by Neal J. Evans II and John H. Lacy).
Lessons Learned (by Elsa Garmire).
Infrared Spectroscopy of Jupiter in 1970 and in the 1990s (by Thomas R. Geballe).
The Galactic Center: Star Formation and Mass Distribution in the Central Parsec (by Reinhard Genzel).
Microwave Spectroscopy, the Maser, and Radio Astronomy: Charles Townes at Columbia (by Joseph A. Giordmaine).
The Role of Radioactive ¹⁴C and ²⁶Al in the Ionization of Circumstellar Envelopes (by Alfred E. Glassgold).
The Clumpy Structure of Molecular Clouds (by Paul F. Goldsmith).
Spontaneous Emission Noise in Quantum Electronics (by James P. Gordon).
Possibility of Infrared Coronal Line Laser Emission in Seyfert Nuclei (by Matthew A. Greenhouse, Howard A. Smith, and Uri Feldman).
Concepts of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Quantum Optics (by Erwin L. Hahn).
Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Laser-polarized Noble Gases (by William Happer).
Deterministic Order-Chaos Transition of Two Ions in a Paul Trap (by John A. Hoffnagle and Richard G. Brewer).
Infrared Emission and H₂0 Masers around Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei (by David J. Hollenbach and Philip R. Maloney).
Knowing Charlie: In the 1950s and Since (by Ali Javan).
The SH Radical: Laboratory Detection of its J = 3/2 to 1/2 Rotational Transition (by Egbert Klisch, Thomas Klaus, Sergei P. Belov, Gispert Winnewisser, and Eric Herbst).
Charlie Townes at Brookhaven (by Walter D. Knight).
Classical Theory of Measurement: A Big Step Towards the Quantum Theory of Measurement (by Willis E. Lamb, Jr. and Heidi Fearn).
The Physics of Nerve Excitation (by Harold Lecar).
The Future of Science Education (by Leon M. Lederman).
Noncoherent Feedback in Space Masers and Stellar Lasers (by Vladilen S. Letokhov).
Application of Millisecond Pulsar Timing to the Long-term Stability of Clock Ensembles (by Demetrios N. Matsakis and Roger S. Foster).
Some Security Implications of Growing Electricity Demand for the Use of Nuclear Power in East Asia (by Michael May).
Dynamic Control of the Photon Statistics in the Micromaser and Laser (by Georg M. Meyer, Tserensodnom Gantsog, Marlan O. Scully, and Herbert Walther).
Sgr A* - A Starving Black Hole? (by Peter G. Mezger, Wolfgang J. Duschl, Robert Zylka, and Thomas Beckert).
Infrared Semiconductor Laser by Means of J x H Force Excitation of Electrons and Holes (by Takeshi Morimoto, Meiro Chiba, and Giyuu Kido).
From Laser Beam Filamentation to Optical Solitons: The Influence of C. H. Townes on the Development of Modem Nonlinear Optics (by Elna M. Nagasako and Robert W. Boyd).
Industrial Research in Today's World (by A. Penzias).
Far-infrared Imaging of the HII Region-Molecular Cloud Complex W51A with a Balloon-borne Telescope (by Francesco A. Pepe, Roland Brodbeck, Daniel Huguenin, and Fritz K. Kneubuehl).
Charles Townes: The Scientist and the Person (by Alexander M. Prokhorov).
Neutron Spin Reorientation Experiments (by Norman F. Ramsey).
An Appreciative Response to Townes on Science and Religion (by Robert J. Russell).
The Academic Ivory Tower Under Siege (by Bernard Sadoulet).
The Correlated Spontaneous Emission Maser Gyroscope (by Marlan O. Scully, Wolfgang Schleich, and Herbert Walther).
Astronomical, Atmospheric, and Wavefront Studies with a Submillimeter-wavelength Interferometer (by Eugene Serabyn).
Theory of an Optical Subharmonic Generator (by Koichi Shimoda).
Hydrogen Masers and Lasers in Space (by Howard A. Smith, Vladimir S. Strelnitski, and Victor O. Ponomarev).
Beyond the South Pole (by John W. V. Storey).
Townes and Nonlinear Optics (by Boris P. Stoicheff).
Spectral Observations of the Molecular Cloud Orion S (by Edmund C. Sutton and Goran Sandell).
A Visit to America (by David H. Whiffen).
Review of Some Photothermal Effects (by John R. Whinnery).
Dark Matter and Faint Galactic Halo Light (by Eric R. Wollman).
Optical Pump-Probe Experiments and the Higgs Field (by Herbert J. Zeiger).