Abstract:
The paper describes the history of the creation of the first ruby laser in 1961 at the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Appendices present a fragment of FIAN's 1961 annual report and a talk at the Third International Congress on Quantum Electronics (1963), in which one of the first scientific results obtained with a laser is described.
Document Type:
Popular science or education materials
PACS:01.65.+g, 42.50.-p, 42.60.-v
Language: Russian
Citation:
A. M. Leontovich, Z. A. Chizhikova, “On the creation of the first ruby laser in Moscow”, UFN, 181:1 (2011), 82–91; Phys. Usp., 54:1 (2011), 77–85