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Nobel Focus: Photons at the Forefront

Don Monroe

Published Oct 1, 2005• 0 citations

Abstract

Three optics researchers who described photons in new ways and made extremely precise measurements of laser light share the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevfocus.16.13

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