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Six Nobel Prize Winners from P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute
2003
Vitaly L. Ginzburg
"for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and
superfluids"
1964
Nikolai Gennadievich Basov
"for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle"
1964
Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov
"For fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle"
1958
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov
"for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
1958
Ilīja Mikhailovich Frank
"for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
1958
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm
"for the discovery and the interpretation of the Cherenkov effect"
The History of the Copper Vapor Laser
Development
1954
The first maser was discovered in P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute by
Alexander Prokhorov.
1964
The Nobel Prize in Physics "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle" was awarded jointly to
Charles Hard Townes from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov from P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute and
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov from P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute
1972
The first self-heated copper vapor laser was designed in P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute by
Anatoly Isaev, Georgy Petrash, Mihail Kazarian.
1978
The first commercial copper vapor laser with sealed-off tube was designed by NPO "ISTOK"
and P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute.
2000
2500 sealed-off laser tubes and about 1000 Copper and Gold vapor laser systems
have been produced in Russia.
Technical parameters of up-to-date laser tubes from NPO "ISTOK" presented in articles
Copper Vapor Laser Tubes.
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