{"id":466056,"date":"2010-03-24T10:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2010-03-24T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:34:32","slug":"lasers-in-the-library-mar-25-at-7-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/466056","title":{"rendered":"Lasers in the Library, Mar 25 at 7 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><em>On May 16, 1960, working at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, Theodore Maiman and his co-workers C. K. Asawa and I. J. D&#8217;Haenens switched on a makeshift device that they had assembled, and hoped for the best. The device was revolutionary, yet deceptively simple and elegant&#8211;its essence was a powerful coiled flash lamp surrounding a synthetic, single-crystal ruby rod. The brilliant pulsed lamp excited chromium ions in the ruby, which then emitted a bright fluorescent pulse of red light. But the experimenters looked more closely and saw what they were hoping for, something much more unusual: a telltale burst of coherent radiation superimposed on the normal fluorescence. This team had just created the first working example of a laser.<\/em>\u00a0 &#8212; Thomas M. Baer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfest.org\/about\/why.cfm\">LaserFest.org <\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this extraordinary moment, the Hughes Researchers could not have known the myriad uses the laser would come to be employed. A new exhibit at the University Libraries Main Library, &#8220;50 Years of Laser Innovation,&#8221; explores the beginnings of the laser, it&#8217;s many uses today and takes a peek at the future of the laser.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit opens with a laser demostration by Dale Stille and graduate students in Physics and Astronomy department in the North Exhibition Hall of the Main Library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 25<br \/>\n7 p.m.<br \/>\nNorth Exhibition Hall, Main Library<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For questions, contact Science Librarian Kari Kozak at 335-3024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 16, 1960, working at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, Theodore Maiman and his co-workers C. K. Asawa and I. J. D&#8217;Haenens switched on a makeshift device that they had assembled, and hoped for the best. The device was revolutionary, yet deceptively simple and elegant&#8211;its essence was a powerful coiled flash lamp surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}