Alfred Kastler quotes

Alfred Kastler quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.”
-- Alfred Kastler

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“We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.”
-- Alfred Kastler

Source : Alfred Kastler (1988). “Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983”

#Light Quotes #Transition Quotes #Atoms Quotes

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