Weniamin Pavlovich Chebotayev

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Veniamin Pavlovich Tschebotajew ( Russian Вениамин Павлович Чеботаев , English transcription Veniamin Pavlovich Chebotayev or Chebotaev * 27. August 1938 in Kuibyshev , † 1. September 1992 in Tucson , Arizona ) was a Russian physicist who with laser spectroscopy dealt.

Life

The family moved to Novosibirsk during World War II . He studied there and became a professor at the Novosibirsk State University . There he dealt with gas lasers in the early 1960s .

He was particularly known for his work on frequency stabilization of gas lasers with saturable absorbers, methods of saturation spectroscopy such as nonlinear Ramsey resonances and two-photon absorption . He published a fundamental work in which he predicted Doppler-free two-photon absorption as early as 1970, but it remained unnoticed in the West for a long time. In 1974 three working groups in the West independently confirmed the effect.

The introduction of a gas cell at low pressure into the laser resonator with resonance absorption of the laser radiation (with generation of an inverse Lamb dip ) was introduced independently by Chebotayev in Novosibirsk, Wladilen Stepanowitsch Letochow in Moscow and Michael Skolnick at Perkin-Elmer in 1967/68. In 1969, Chebotayev and Letochov proposed the method of saturation-absorption spectroscopy.

In 1984 he received the Charles Hard Townes Award . In 1978 he received the Lenin Prize .

In 1992 he became a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

He died of a heart attack while attending a lecture at the University of Arizona in Tucson. At the time of his death he was a Humboldt Professorship in Munich and a visiting professor at Yale University with William R. Bennett (with whom he had already been an exchange researcher at Yale in 1966) for half a year .

Fonts

  • VP Chebotaev, Vladilen S. Letokhov Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy , Springer Series in Optical Sciences 4, Springer Verlag 1977 (Russian original Nauka, Moscow 1975)
  • Chebotaev: Superhigh resolution spectroscopy , in M. Bass, M. Stitch Laser Handbook , Volume 5, North Holland 1985
  • Chebotayev, Beterov: Three level gas systems and their interaction with radiation , Oxford, Pergamon Press 1973

literature

  • Evgenii B Aleksandrov, Aleksandr F Andreev, SN Bagayev, NG Basov, FV Bunkin, Andrei V Gaponov-Grekhov, Nikolai V Karlov, Leonid V Keldysh, VS Letokhov, Gennadii A Mesyats, AM Prokhorov, Igor I Sobel'man: Veniamin Pavlovich Chebotaev (Obituary) . In: Physics-Uspekhi . tape 36 , no. 2 , p. 100 , doi : 10.1070 / PU1993v036n02ABEH002133 (English).
  • Vladilen S. Letokhov: Veniamin P. Chebotayev 08/27/1938 - 09/01/1992 . In: Applied Physics B . tape 56 , 1993, pp. 1–2 , doi : 10.1007 / BF00332145 ( springer.com [PDF]).
  • William R. Bennett: Obituary . In: Laser Physics . tape 4 , 1994, pp. 205–208 (English, no longer available online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baklanov, Dubetsky, Chebotayev Nonlinear Ramsey resonances in the optical region , Applied Physics 9, 1976, 171
  2. ↑ Demtröder laser spectroscopy , Chapter 14.1.3
  3. ↑ Chebotayev, Vasilenko, Shishaev JETP Letters, Volume 12, 1970, p. 113
  4. ↑ Biraben, Cagnac, Grynberg Phys. Rev. Letters, Vol. 32, 1974, p. 643; M. Levenson, Nicolaas Bloembergen , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 32, 1974, p. 645; Theodor W. Hänsch , K. Harvey, G. Meisel, Arthur L. Schawlow Optics Communications, Volume 11, 1974, p. 50
personal data
SURNAME Chebotayev, Weniamin Pavlovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chebotayev, Veniamin Pavlovich; Чеботаев, Вениамин Павлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Kuibyshev
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1992
Place of death Tucson , Arizona