At the Frontiers in Optics conference in October 2008, OSA marked the 50th anniversary of the classic paper on laser theory by Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes. OPN writer Patricia Daukantas conducted an exclusive interview with the 93-year-old Townes, a Nobel laureate and OSA Honorary Member, about his groundbreaking research.

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http://www.osa-opn.org

The Schawlow-Townes paper ("Infrared and Optical Masers,” Phys. Rev. 112, 1940 [1958]):
http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v112/i6/p1940_1

Direct download: TownesPodcastComplete.mp3
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