maser

Examples

• All

• The historical development of masers and lasers has been well documented in several books.

  Academic text (1993)

• And subcompact masers have been developed for satellite applications.

  Academic text (1993)

• The frequency of the sup129Xe maser is held constant with the help of a magnetic field adjusted via feedback.

  Academic text (2004)

• After its demonstration with molecular beams, the maser concept began to attract the attention of the magnetic resonance community.

  Academic text (1993)

• Townes and Arthur Schawlow were the first to present a fundamental discussion that extended maser principles to optical frequencies.

  Academic text (1993)

• Population inversions in molecules such as OH, CH, methanol, and H2O produce strong natural maser emission.

  Academic text (1999)

• Built by Lee Alsop, Joseph Giordmaine, and Townes at Columbia, this was the first maser to be used as an amplifier for radio astronomy.

  Academic text (1993)

• Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs used a ruby maser amplifier for their celebrated discovery of the 3K cosmic microwave background.

  Academic text (1993)

• Scientists use a maser to amplify microwave signals in advanced communication systems.

• Researchers demonstrated how a maser can generate coherent microwave radiation for various applications.

Compounds

G

gas maser

• Specialized

9.8

A device that makes microwave signals stronger using gas molecules

O

optical maser

• Archaic

8.2

A device that makes a very strong single-color beam of light

Surface Forms

Etymology