Charles Townes Papers Made Open Access in SPIE Digital Library

"Research papers published by visionary laser pioneer Charles Townes are being made available via open access in the SPIE Digital Library, in a tribute to the Nobel Laureate’s work. Professor Townes died Tuesday, 27 January at the age of 99. The papers cover technologies and systems used to unlock the secrets of the universe through astronomical measurement and image modeling, and are accessible through 31 March 2015 at http://spiedigitallibrary.org/SS/Charles_Townes.aspx. The library is published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Townes, who at the time of his death was Professor Emeritus of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, shared the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics with Aleksandr Prokhorov and Nicolai Basov, who independently came up with the idea for a maser. The prize recognized their work toward the invention of the laser ..."