Saturday, July 23, 2011

symposium celebrating 50 years of NLO--Planery talk by prof. Harris

Tuesday when I had lunch with Prof. Andy Kung, he said: All I want to listen is the wed. symposium.

The much-anticipated symposium started with planary talk by Dr. Harris. He started saying it has been wonderful 50 years and he would like to personalize that history.




He mentioned his early optical talbe, which was made from a lathe:



He concluded by speaking about his achievement:

40 years ago I modulated many photons; 40 years later I modulate one photon.



Thank Prof. Andy Kung for providing me these pictures.

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