Wednesday, May 19, 2010

"Milestones of Photon History"

On occasion of the 50-year anniversary of the first demonstration of the laser (actually on the 16 May 1960), "Nature Milestones" highlights key discoveries in optics, which are based on the photon:



A timeline is presented with small but compact articles to the different milestones. It presents a fast but interesting overview/ introduction over many important discoveries which are today everywhere used in optics. It is really worth to read it. If I am not wrong, I think the articles are even open access. You can either read it directly on the page or as pdf:

pfd of milenstones timeline (link)
pdf of all milenstones (link)

have fun

1 comment:

  1. Awesome i like it it is rare very rare. keep posting such a nice post. Thank-you for sharing all your great ideas! it is really interesting and important to many people!

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