John Hall: Main Lecture, Chongqing University - Light as a Tool Lecture from “Innovation, Luck and the Optical Frequency Comb” at Chongqing University, China
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Chapter 1 of 11: Light as a Tool
John Hall's fascinating lecture gives an overview of his extraordinary work on the frequency comb as well as some of its exciting applications. (1 hour, 34 minutes)
Chapter 1 of 11: Light as a Tool
John Hall's fascinating lecture gives an overview of his extraordinary work on the frequency comb as well as some of its exciting applications. (1 hour, 34 minutes)
Chapter 2 of 11: Introduction
Luck isn't quite as simple as it seems - you can do a lot to help take advantage of your opportunities. (3 minutes, 27 seconds)
Chapter 3 of 11: Early days of LASER
John Hall sums up the early days of LASER research and the beginnings of his research with them. (2 minutes, 44 seconds)
Chapter 4 of 11: Finding your problem
After some initial success and disappointment John had to find himself a problem that he could really get his teeth stuck into. (5 minutes, 19 seconds)
Chapter 5 of 11: How to proceed?
With a large number of options for his laser research John broke down the options to find himself the great problem. His choice was the speed of light. (1 minute, 47 seconds)
Chapter 6 of 11: The Speed of Light - Setting Standards
The speed of light hasn't always been the global standard for measurement and, as ever, redefining a universal standard is a tricky process. Using his stabilised lasers and a lot of help from co-workers John Hall eventua… (8 minutes, 28 seconds)
Chapter 7 of 11: Building your own Laser
Success in precision science is hard work and takes a hot of technical ingenuity - as well as late nights. (2 minutes, 57 seconds)
Chapter 8 of 11: Optical Clockwork
Accurate timing has been vital to humanity for hundreds of years and John had an ambition to produce something to add to that pool of knowledge. (3 minutes, 41 seconds)
Chapter 9 of 11: Trends in laser - the start of the comb
Pulsed lasers and other techinques pioneered in invented in the 90's combined to make the optical frequency comb possible. (3 minutes, 24 seconds)
Chapter 10 of 11: Dawn of New Epoch
The last piece of the puzzle was a piece of fibre optics with a honey combed structure developed in 1999. The first working optical desktop comb wasn't far away. (6 minutes, 1 second)
Chapter 11 of 11: Rulers of the Light
(56 minutes, 17 seconds)
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Five years after receiving the Nobel Prize for his discoveries relating to the Optical Frequency Comb, John Hall has far reaching ambitions for its exciting applications.
