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The laser pioneers have been very farsighted, with imagination to see the many future applications and possibilities opening up with each new advance in laser techniques. On the other hand, it is notoriously easy for enthusiasm to influence the reliable estimation of difficulties still to be overcome before each new potential laser capability can really be widely applied in other research. For example, 5 years were to pass after the famous MIT stable laser experiments first suggested the possibility of an improved wavelength standard, before the demonstration in 1968 of a pure neon laser that did somewhat outperform the incoherent krypton standard. This was closely followed by lasers stabilized to molecular transitions: they provided advances of 2–3 orders of magnitude and completely vindicated the early optimism. Now the methane work has advanced to a state approaching parity with man’s best measurement standard, the cesium beam primary frequency standard, and workers in the standards field are excited about dramatic further possible improvements. Thus experience confirms the vision and insight of the early stable laser workers, but teaches caution relative to the expected ease of application and rapidity of development.
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Hall, J.L., Lee, S.A. (1976). Control Techniques for CW Dye Lasers. In: Mooradian, A., Jaeger, T., Stokseth, P. (eds) Tunable Lasers and Applications. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37996-6_32
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