Nobel Prize for Physics 2005: Readings from the Physics Today Archive

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005
is awarded with one half to Roy J. Glauber "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence"

and with one half jointly to John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch "for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique"

References recommended by Physics Today:

Femstosecond Comb Technique Vastly Simplifies Optical Frequency Measures
Gloria Lubkin
June 2000

Quantum Shot Noise
Carlo Beenakker and Christian Schönenberger
May 2003

Adjusting the Values of the Fundamental Constants
Peter J. Mohr and Barry N. Taylor
March 2001

Time Measurement at the Millennium
James C. Bergquist, Steven R. Jefferts, and David J. Wineland
March 2001

On the Matter of the Meter
Daniel Kleppner
March 2001

Optical Frequency Measurement Is Getting A Lot More Precise
Bertram Schwarzschild
December 1997

Attosecond Bursts Trace the Electric Field of Optical Laser Pulses
Charles Day
October 2004

Ultrashort Laser Pulses Beget Even Shorter Bursts in the Extreme Ultraviolet
Charles Day
April 2003

A Remembrance of Pauli in 1950
Roy Glauber
February 2001

An Excursion with Enrico Fermi, 14 July 1954
Roy Glauber
June 2002