Gas Lasers for Recording and Information Handling-A Review

Buzzard, R. J.

doi:10.1117/12.7971923

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“…The present paper is not intended to be a review of the laser chemistry field during 1960∼1985 as the research conducted during the period is too voluminous to be captured in a Perspective (i.e., more than several thousand papers were published on lasers in chemistry during the Early Era). Nor will we discuss the many fields of laser applications that continue to this day but began in the Early Era, including quantum optics, , LIDAR, optical recording, telecommunications, and fiber optics, which are not within the scope of this paper. An exception will be the field of spectroscopy which strongly contributed to the development of laser-selective chemistry.…”

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The Early Era of Laser-Selective Chemistry 1960∼1985: Roots of Modern Quantum Control

Laforge

Lee

Rabitz

2023

J. Phys. Chem. Lett.

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Physicists revolutionized the scientific world when they invented the laser in 1960. During the next two decades, fruitful interplay occurred between theoreticians and experimentalists seeking progress in laser-selective chemistry. In the Early Era, defined as 1960∼1985, scientists gradually realized the immense complexity of the problem of performing tailored manipulations at the molecular scale. However, their efforts opened the doors to a new, broader scientific field of research called quantum control which developed in the Modern Era, defined as 1985 to the present time. This Perspective aims to show that the roots of quantum control may be linked to endeavors to manipulate chemical reactions with lasers and thus reaches as far back as the invention of the laser in 1960. We will emphasize the role of advancing technology, the prescience in the questions raised by researchers, and the role of interdisciplinary research. The Perspective concludes with an assessment of what was achieved in the Early Era.

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