Laser physics / Murray Sargent, Marlan O. Scully, Willis E. Lamb, Jr

Seftya Eka Fahyan

Peter W. Milonni

O. Svelto

Rajarshi Roy

The photon-number distributions for a laser with a saturable-absorber and a dye laser are obtained by extensions of the Scully and Lamb optical-maser theory. The results are shown to be in correspondence with those of Lugiato et al. for the saturable-absorber laser and with those of Schaefer and Willis for the dye laser. Moreover, they are in a form which clearly shows the relation between the saturable-absorber laser and the dye laser. The thermodynamic potentials for the first-order phase-transition analogy are calculated and are found to be of the form predicted by Scott, Sargent, and Cantrell using semiclassical equations.

Willis E. Lamb, Jagdish Mehra

A collection of the various papers and lectures of Professor Willis E. Lamb, (who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 for his precise measurement of what came to be called the Lamb Shift) on the fundamental, fascinating and fashionable subject of the interpretation of quantum mechanics. Professor Lamb began to bring his insights to this subject since he first started publishing his papers in the field in 1969. In a detailed editorial annotation on the Scientific Work of Willis E. Lamb, Jr (based on extensive conversations with Professor Lamb), Jagdish Mehra, a historian of modern physics, provides a survey of Professor Lamb's diverse contributions to the various fields of fundamental physics and the context in which they were made.