OSA Century of Optics

Below is a sampling of chapters that contain historical background on lasers from Optica Publishing Group's centennial publication, OSA Century of Optics.

• The Discovery of the Laser Jeff Hecht pg. 81
• Gas Lasers—The Golden Decades, 1960–1980 William B. Bridges pg. 88
• Discovery of the Tunable Dye Laser Jeff Hecht pg. 94
• The Birth of the Laser Industry: Overview Jeff Hecht pg. 100
• Lasers at American Optical and Laser Incorporated Bill Shiner pg. 101
• Solid-State Lasers William Krupke and Robert Byer pg. 103
• Semiconductor Diode Lasers: Early History Marshall I. Nathan pg. 107
• Lasers and the Growth of Nonlinear Optics Jeff Hecht pg. 114
• History of Laser Materials Processing David A. Belforte pg. 124
• Brief History of Barcode Scanning Jay Eastman pg. 128
• Developing the Laser Printer Gary Starkweather pg. 134
• Half a Century of Laser Weapons Jeff Hecht pg. 149
• Laser Isotope Enrichment Jeff Hecht pg. 161
• Lasers for Fusion Research John Murray pg. 166
• History of Laser Remote Sensing, Laser Radar, and Lidar Dennis K. Killinger pg. 175
• Advent of Continuous-Wave Room-Temperature Operation of Diode Lasers Michael Ettenberg pg. 199
• Remembering the Million Hour Laser Richard W. Dixon pg. 203
• Linear and Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy M. Bass and S.C. Rand pg. 218
• Optical Trapping and Manipulation of Small Particles by Laser Light Pressure Arthur Ashkin pg. 223
• High-Power, Reliable Diode Lasers and Arrays Dan Botez pg. 227
• Tunable Solid-State Lasers Peter F. Moulton pg. 232
• Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers Erich P. Ippen pg. 237
• Excimer Laser Surgery: Laying the Foundation for Laser Refractive Surgery James J. Wynne pg. 257
• Ultrafast-Laser Technology from the 1990s to Present Wayne H. Knox pg. 304
• Biomedical Optics: In Vivo and In Vitro Applications Gregory Faris pg. 308
• Lasers and Laser Applications Robert L. Byer pg. 336