Amazing Light

1 Introduction: Charles Townes as I Have Known Him.- 2 Methane Optical Frequency Standard.- 3 Mid-infrared Lines as Astrophysical Diagnostics: Two Decades of Problems and Promise.- 4 The Laser Stabilitron.- 5 Self-Regulated Star Formation in Molecular Clouds.- 6 Long-baseline Interferometric Imaging at 11 Microns with 30 Milliarcsecond Resolution.- 7 Ammonia in the Giant Planets.- 8 Collision Broadening and Radio-frequency Spectroscopy.- 9 Meeting Charles H. Townes.- 10 Population Inversion and Superluminality.- 11 The Autler-Townes Effect Revisited.- 12 Parity Nonconservation in Atoms and Searches for Permanent Electric Dipole Moments.- 13 Stark Dynamics and Saturation in Resonant Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy.- 14 A Raman Study of Fluorinated Ethanes Adsorbed on Zeolite NaX.- 15 Laser Light-scattering Spectroscopy of Supercooled Liquids and the Glass Transition.- 16 The Electronic Emission Spectra of Triatomic Hydrogen: The 6025? Bands of H2D and HD2.- 17 Limitations for Frequency-based Absolute Length Measurements.- 18 Microcavity Quantum Electrodynamics.- 19 Testimonial for Celebration of Professor Charles Townes’ 80th Birthday.- 20 Marine Physical Laboratory: A Brief History.- 21 Searching for the Cause of Alzheimer’s Disease.- 22 Radio and Infrared Spectroscopy of Interstellar Molecules.- 23 Lessons Learned.- 24 Infrared Spectroscopy of Jupiter in 1970 and in the 1990s.- 25 The Galactic Center: Star Formation and Mass Distribution in the Central Parsec.- 26 Microwave Spectroscopy, the Maser, and Radio Astronomy: Charles Townes at Columbia.- 27 The Role of Radioactive 14C and 26Al in the Ionization of Circumstellar Envelopes.- 28 The Clumpy Structure of Molecular Clouds.- 29 Spontaneous Emission Noise in Quantum Electronics.- 30 Possibility ofInfrared Coronal Line Laser Emission in Seyfert Nuclei.- 31 Concepts of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in Quantum Optics.- 32 Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Laser-polarized Noble Gases.- 33 Deterministic Order-Chaos Transition of Two Ions in a Paul Trap.- 34 Infrared Emission and H2O Masers around Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei.- 35 Knowing Charlie: In the 1950s and Since.- 36 The SH Radical: Laboratory Detection of its $$J = /frac{3}{2} /leftarrow /frac{1}{2}$$ Rotational Transition.- 37 Charlie Townes at Brookhaven.- 38 Classical Theory of Measurement: A Big Step Towards the Quantum Theory of Measurement.- 39 The Physics of Nerve Excitation.- 40 The Future of Science Education.- 41 Noncoherent Feedback in Space Masers and Stellar Lasers.- 42 Application of Millisecond Pulsar Timing to the Long-term Stability of Clock Ensembles.- 43 Some Security Implications of Growing Electricity Demand for the Use of Nuclear Power in East Asia.- 44 Dynamic Control of the Photon Statistics in the Micromaser and Laser.- 45 Sgr A* — A Starving Black Hole?.- 46 Infrared Semiconductor Laser by Means of J x H Force Excitation of Electrons and Holes.- 47 From Laser Beam Filamentation to Optical Solitons: The Influence of C. H. Townes on the Development of Modern Nonlinear Optics.- 48 Industrial Research in Today’s World.- 49 Far-infrared Imaging of the HII Region-Molecular Cloud Complex W51A with a Balloon-borne Telescope.- 50 Charles Townes: The Scientist and the Person.- 51 Neutron Spin Reorientation Experiments.- 52 An Appreciative Response to Townes on Science and Religion.- 53 The Academic Ivory Tower Under Siege.- 54 The Correlated Spontaneous Emission Maser Gyroscope.- 55 Astronomical, Atmospheric, and Wavefront Studies with a Submillimeter-wavelength Interferometer.- 56Theory of an Optical Subharmonic Generator.- 57 Hydrogen Masers and Lasers in Space.- 58 Beyond the South Pole.- 59 Townes and Nonlinear Optics.- 60 Spectral Observations of the Molecular Cloud Orion S.- 61 A Visit to America.- 62 Review of Some Photothermal Effects.- 63 Dark Matter and Faint Galactic Halo Light.- 64 Optical Pump-Probe Experiments and the Higgs Field.