Follow us: Facebook    Twitter    rss    E-mail alert
Search Issue | Previous Next

May 1985

Volume 38, Issue 5

Issue Cover
back to top
RSS Feeds

Special Issue: Optoelectronics

Herwig Kogelnik
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Lightwave Telecommunication

Tingye Li
OpenURL
Show Topic
High‐speed semiconductor lasers transmit billions of bits of data per second to sensitive solid‐state detectors through ultra‐low‐loss glass fibers more than a hundred kilometers long.

Advances in Semiconductor Lasers

Yasuharu Suematsu
OpenURL
Show Topic
Diode lasers are providing coherent monochromatic light for an enormous variety of applications, including fiber‐optic communications, audio and video recording systems and aligning structures and tunnels.

Laser Linewidth

Aram Mooradian
OpenURL
Show Topic
Detailed theoretical and experimental study of the quantum effects that limit the spectral purity of lasers has led to semiconductor lasers whose output is highly monochromatic and coherent

Quantum Wells for Photonics

Daniel S. Chemla
OpenURL
Show Topic
New techniques for growing semiconductors with alternating ultrathin layers llow one to produce materials with made‐to‐order electro‐optic properties and otential uses such as optical modulators and solid‐state photomultipliers.

Radionuclide Releases from Severe Accidents at Nuclear Power Plants

Barbara G. Levi
OpenURL
Show Topic
Releases for many accidents are now predicted to be much lower than previously calculated, but an APS study group cautions against extending that conclusion to all scenarios.
back to top
RSS Feeds

Computer Simulations

L. Kowalski
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Ending Scientific Illiteracy

John E. Beach
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Physics and the Military

Jocelyn Tomkin and Charles Schwartz
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Small‐Scale Research

Daniel Kleppner
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Physics News in 1984

Jerry P. Gollub
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Low‐Energy Lone Electron Exhibits Relativistic Hysteresis

Bertram Schwarzschild
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Grenoble, It Seems, Will Get European Synchrotron Facility

Bertram Schwarzschild
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

CLEO to be Held in Baltimore

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

From Falling Bodies to Radio Waves: Classical Physicists and Their Discoveries

Emilio Segré and Stephen G. Brush, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Three Degrees Above Zero: Bell Labs in the Information Age

Jeremy Bernstein and Bruce R. Wheaton, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Many‐Body Theory of Solids: An Introduction

J. C. Inkson and Dirk Ter Haar, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Foundations of Laser Spectroscopy

S. Stenholm, Peter M. Felker, and Ahmed H. Zewail, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Volume 1: Plasma Physics, Second Edition

Francis F. Chen and Schweickhard E. Von Goeler, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Eddington: The Most Distinguished Astrophysicist of His Time

S. Chandrasekhar and Robert W. Smith, Reviewer
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

New Books

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

New Products

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

19 Honored with National Medals in Science

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Three Honored for Low‐Temperature Work

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Deutch Named Provost at MIT

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds
FREE

James H. Crawford Jr

E. Merzbacher and L. M. Slifkin
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
FREE

Josif Samuilovich Shklovsky

Herbert Friedman
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

NSF's Supercomputing Centers: Number Crunching for Research

Irwin Goodwin
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Reagan Lauds SDI; Shultz Scholds Scientists

Irwin Goodwin
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

At Last, a New Deputy Director for NSF

Irwin Goodwin
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Europe Boards NASA Space Station Somewhat Reluctantly

William Sweet
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

AIP Selects Lubkin to be Editor of PHYSICS TODAY

H. William Koch
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

East German Sentenced to 8 Years as Spy

Irwin Goodwin
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

Triangle Coalition Forms with Wide Society Support

William Sweet
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable

AIP to Send Two Observers to World Physics Olympiad

William Sweet
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Calendar

OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
back to top
RSS Feeds

Filling UNESCO's Place

Anthony P. French and Jack M. Wilson
OpenURL
Lead Unavailable
Close

close