{"id":130,"date":"2012-03-12T12:01:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/previous\/50-years-of-laser\/"},"modified":"2012-10-18T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T18:25:39","slug":"laser","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/previous\/laser\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Laser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;\"><strong>March &#8211; June 2010<\/strong><\/p>\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\u2019Haenens switched on a makeshift device that they had assembled, and hoped for the best. The device was revolutionary, yet deceptively simple and elegant\u2013its 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 \u2014 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, \u201c50 Years of Laser Innovation,\u201d explores the beginnings of the laser, it\u2019s many uses today and takes a peek at the future of the laser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newstitle\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">Acknowledgements<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\"><strong>Exhibition Planning and Installation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;\">Kari Kozak, Ed Holtum, Gordana Lenert, Steve Ostrem<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\"><strong>Production <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;\">Bill Voss<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\"><strong>Graphic design<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;\">IMU Marketing + Graphic Design<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\"><strong>Laser Assistance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;\">Dale Stille<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\"><strong>Special thanks <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;\">Dr. Vincent Rodgers<br \/>\nDepartment of Physics and Astronomy at Iowa<br \/>\nOptical Science and Technology Center<br \/>\nLaserFest (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfest.org\">www.laserfest.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Iowa Libraries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":77,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-exhibits.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/322"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/exhibits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}