Proceedings of the John Hall Symposium in honor of John Hall on the occasion of his 70th birthday : University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, 13-15 August 2004 (World Scientific, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references
Jan's preface : a joyous and quick trip / Jan Hall -- The John Hall Symposium opening remarks / Arden Bement -- Laser works at Boulder Laboratories in the early sixties / Hiroshi Takuma -- Some words about John Hall / James E. Faller -- Optical cavities and gravity -- wave detectors / Ronald Drever -- The search for gravitational waves -- Jan's influence in the field / James Hough -- Letter to John Hall from the Russian Academy of Sciences / Sergei Bagayev -- On the road to ultra-high resolution and ultra-accurate spectroscopy at the National Research Council of Canada : following the path of John L. Hall / A.A. Madej ... [et al.] -- Converting photons to decibels -- travels with John Hall in quantum optics land / H.J. Kimble -- Extending laser comparisons to frequency calibrations / Long-Sheng Ma ... [et al.] -- Stabilized lasers, combs and cold ion spectroscopy : a tribute to J.L. Hall / Patrick Gill -- Thanks to Jan Hall from France / Christian Breant --
- Marilyn (Lindy) Hall / Katharine Gebbie -- Many good years with JILA / Lindy Hall -- JLH and 40 years of influence on world science (notes from Central Russia) / Mikhail A. Gubin -- Funny lineshapes in saturated absorption spectroscopy / E. Arimondo -- Quantum interferometry with ultrastable twin beams / Olivier Pfister and Sheng Feng -- The hidden side of a laser beam / Jared W. Moore, Reeta Vyas, and Surendra Singh -- Gaining control in quantum optics / Hans-A. Bachor -- To the laser maestro / Jim Bergquist -- Spectroscopy in extremely thin vapor cells : sensitivity issues / M. Ducloy and D. Bloch -- Following the path blazed by Jan Hall / Leo Hollberg -- From a transportable I[symbol]-stabilized ND : YAG laser to hyperfine constants of I[symbol] and laser frequency measurements / Feng-Lei Hong -- The first measurements with octave-spanning femtosecond laser frequency combs / David Jones and Scott A. Diddams --
- Recoil-induced asymmetries in the spectra of laser-cooled atoms / Chris Oates -- To John Hall / Brian Petley -- When physics rules robotics / Mel Siegel -- The optical calcium frequency standard of PTB / U. Steer ... [et al.] -- Jan's greatest gifts to my scientific career / Jun Ye -- Study of CPT in a vapor cell with optical phase locked diode lasers / Miao Zhu
This symposium was a dedication to John L. Hall, who was recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, (report below). The symposium was a celebration of his striking career in physics and his impressive record of achievements. Papers included in this volume offer brief and personal glimpses of some of his achievements, the research he inspired, and the great friendships he has built. Nobel Prize Report : John L. Hall, a Scientist Emeritus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and a Fellow of JILA (joint institute of NIST and University of Colorado) has been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics. Hall shared the Nobel with Theodor W. Hansch of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics and a professor of physics at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany, and Roy J. Glauber, a professor of physics at Harvard University. Hall and Hansch were awarded half the Nobel Prize for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique. An optical frequency comb is generated by a laser specially designed to produce a series of extremely short - a few billionths of a second - equally spaced pulses of light