Serge Haroche

Serge Haroche (2015) - The International Year of Light: Celebrating Fifty Years of Laser Revolution in Physics

The year 2015 has been named the International Year of Light, to mark milestones in the science of light which occurred 1000, 200, 150, 100 and 50 years go. I was a young student in physics in 1965, when the cosmic radiation background was discovered and the first applications of the laser to fibre optics communication proposed