{"id":1649,"date":"2010-03-24T08:34:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T14:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T18:48:06","slug":"lasers-in-the-library-mar-25-at-7-p-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/24\/lasers-in-the-library-mar-25-at-7-p-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasers in the Library, Mar 25 at 7 p.m."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><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>&nbsp; &#8212; Thomas M. Baer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfest.org\/about\/why.cfm\">LaserFest.org <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 25<br>7 p.m.<br>North Exhibition Hall, Main Library<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\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<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/24\/lasers-in-the-library-mar-25-at-7-p-m\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Lasers in the Library, Mar 25 at 7 p.m.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/6098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}