Looking back to the Laser of Schawlow and Townes, and Looking forward to the Generation of Gravitational Radiation

Raymond Chiao

doi:10.1364/FIO.2008.SMD4

Frontiers in Optics 2008/Laser Science XXIV/Plasmonics and Metamaterials/Optical Fabrication and Testing
OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2008),
paper SMD4
•https://doi.org/10.1364/FIO.2008.SMD4

Looking back to the Laser of Schawlow and Townes, and Looking forward to the Generation of Gravitational Radiation

Raymond Chiao

Frontiers in Optics 2008

Rochester, New York United States
19–23 October 2008
ISBN: 978-1-55752-861-2

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Schawlow-Townes Symposium on 50 Years of the Laser: Looking to Tomorrow (SMD)

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Abstract

In 1958 Schawlow and Townes proposed the use of stimulated emission for generating macroscopically coherent light. I propose that the use of charged, macroscopically coherent quantum matter can lead to efficient generation of gravitational waves.

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