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NOV 01, 1975

Exchange visits have given us a good view of Soviet work on laser fusion, nonlinear optics, laser spectroscopy, isotope separation and the development of new lasers—and enhanced the prospects for further cooperation.

DOI: 10.1063/1.3069205

H. Richard Leuchtag

An impressive amount of research is carried out in the Soviet Union in the areas of laser physics and quantum electronics. PHYSICS TODAY asked a number of leading US physicists who have worked closely with the Soviets in these fields to give us their impressions of this work. They are Michael Feld, an associate professor of physics at MIT; Aram Mooradian, the leader, and Paul Kelley, the associate leader of the Quantum Electronics Group at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Keith Boyer, division leader for laser fusion at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, and Ali Javan, a professor of physics at MIT and an inventor of the helium–neon laser.

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