useful or interesting links
Nobel
prize,
1964, to Townes, Basov and "for fundamental work in the
field of quantum electronics, which has led to the
construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the
maser-laser principle".
Laser timeline (from an American website)
Review article on Prokhorov's contributions (from a Russian website)
Gerard Mourou on Chirped Pulsed Amplification (on YouTube)
Recollision in strong laser physics (on YouTube)
Nobel prize, 1997, to Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and William D. Phillips "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light"
Nobel prize 2005 to Roy J. Glauber "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence",the other 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"