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Prospects for precision physical experiments in optics

Until recently the sources of electromagnetic waves in the radio and $\gamma$-ray bands were much more monochromatic than optical sources. The advent of stable lasers with frequency reproducibility $\sim10^{14}$ has uncovered new possibilities of performing experiments of interest in physics. To illustrate these possibilities, results are cited of the measurements of the quadratic Doppler effect in a gas, the magnetic hyperfine structure of a vibrational-rotational transition of methane, and the recoil effect. A number of experiments that lasers will make possible in the near future are discussed, namely, high-accuracy measurements of the Rydberg constant using two-photon absorption, measurement of the quadratic Doppler shift, measurements of the gravitational frequency shift of the earth's field, and the possibility of observing parity nonconservation in atomic transitions.

PACS: 42.60.Kg, 32.80.Kf, 33.80.Kn, 35.80.+s
DOI: 10.1070/PU1977v020n07ABEH005447
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/1977/7/d/
Citation: Baklanov E V, Chebotaev V P "Prospects for precision physical experiments in optics" Sov. Phys. Usp. 20 631–637 (1977)
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@article{Baklanov:1977,
	author = {E. V. Baklanov and V. P. Chebotaev},
	title = {Prospects for precision physical experiments in optics},
	publisher = {Physics-Uspekhi},
	year = {1977},
	journal = {Phys. Usp.},
	volume = {20},
	number = {7},
	pages = {631-637},
	url = {https://ufn.ru/en/articles/1977/7/d/},
	doi = {10.1070/PU1977v020n07ABEH005447}
}

Оригинал: Бакланов Е В, Чеботаев В П «О постановке прецизионных физических экспериментов в оптике» УФН 122 513–523 (1977); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0122.197707e.0513

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