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Clemson Names Optical Science Lab for Nobel Winner

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Clemson University in Clemson, S.C., has recognized Nobel Prize-winning physicist Charles H. Townes, credited as the father of quantum electronics, by officially naming its optical science laboratories in his honor. The sign for the Charles H. Townes Laboratories for Optical Sciences and Engineering, located at the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory in the university's Advanced Materials Center, was unveiled today by Townes, 93, and his wife, Frances. Townes received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1964 for his research on the maser (microwave amplification by stimulation emission of...Read full article

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    Published: October 2008
    Glossary
    maser
    An acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Predecessor to the laser, the maser or 'microwave laser' was the first device to produce coherent electromagnetic waves, and was done at microwave frequencies through amplification by stimulated emission. A laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) is a maser that works over a broader range of higher frequency photons in the ultraviolet and visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
    photonics
    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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