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The word laser was coined as an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Ordinary light, from th
The word laser was coined as an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Ordinary light, from th
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2010-01-10
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The word laser was coined as an acronym for Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Ordinary light, from the Sun or a light bulb, is emitted spontaneously, when atoms or molecules get rid of excess energy by them-selves, without any outside intervention. Stimulated emission is different because it occurs when an atom or molecule holding onto excess energy has been stimulated to emit it as light.
Albert Einstein was the first to suggest the existence of stimulated emission in a paper published in 1917. However, for many years physicists thought that atoms and molecules always were much more likely to emit light spontaneously and that stimulated emission thus always would be much weaker. It was not until after the Second World War that physicists began trying to make stimulated emission dominate. They sought ways by which one atom or molecule could stimulate many others to emit light, amplifying it to much higher powers.
The first to succeed was Charles H. Townes, then at Columbia University in New York. Instead of working with light, however, he worked with microwaves, which have a much longer wavelength, and built a device he called a "maser," for Microwave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the first maser was not completed until a couple of years later. Before long, many other physicists were building masers and trying to discover how to produce stimulated mission at even shorter wavelengths.
The key concepts emerged about 1957. Townes and Arthur Schawlow, then at Bell Telephone Laboratories, wrote a long paper outlining the conditions needed to amplify stimulated emission of visible light waves. At about the same time, similar ideas crystallized in the mind of Gordon Gould, then a 37-year-old graduate student at Columbia, who wrote them down in a series of notebooks. Townes and Schawlow published their ideas in a scientific journal, Physical Review Letters, but Gould filed a patent application. Three decades later, people still argue about who deserves the credit for the concept of the laser.
Which of the following statements best describes a laser?
选项
A、A device for stimulating atoms and molecules to emit light.
B、An atom in a high-energy state.
C、A technique for destroying atoms or molecules.
D、An instrument for measuring light waves.
答案
A
解析
下列陈述最能描述激光:A刺激原子和分子发出光来的发明;B高能量状态下的原子;C破坏原子或分子的技术;D测定光波的器械。第一段中谈到:激光是辐射刺激性放射光扩大的首字母缩略词,而原子或分子被刺激而发射出来的光不同于自然发射的光。故A为正确选项。
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