maser Definition
☆ ma·ser (mā′zər)
noun
a device, operating at microwave frequencies, in which atoms or molecules are raised to a higher energy level and allowed to lose the energy by radiation that is emitted at a very precise frequency
Etymology: m(icrowave) a(mplification by) s(timulated) e(mission of) r(adiation)
maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) Telecom Definition
The maser is a device similar to the laser, but emitting microwave radio waves rather than light. In 1953, Charles H. Townes, James P. Gordon, and Herbert J. Zeiger invented the maser, which earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964. Research continued into the 1950s, leading to the optical maser, or laser, for which AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories was awarded a patent in 1960. See also laser.
maser Usage Examples
Converse of object
call: These beacons, called masers ( the radio equivalent of lasers ) show up as bright spots in the radio images.
Preposition: in
region: Abstract This thesis presents observational data and analysis of the OH masers in the star-forming region W3(OH ).
Adjective modifier
- oh: The astrometric precision will also enable proper motion studies, and accurate comparisions of OH masers with methanol, water and other species.
- cosmic: In 1965 the first cosmic maser was discovered, in a region of OH gas close to a young star.
Modifies a noun
- emission: It will be used to survey our Galaxy for sources of maser emission, the ( natural ) radio equivalents of lasers.
- source: The main research aims include a survey searching for new maser sources in the Galaxy and monitoring the variability of known sources.
- datum: The epoch 1 and 2 H 2 O maser data has been largely reduced.
- action: One possible application is the initiation of maser action, where the radiation intensity is very low.
Noun used with modifier
- methanol: Until now methanol masers have been found only in association with massive young stellar objects.
- hydrogen: In this way the frequency of the transition observed in the fountain can be related to that of the hydrogen maser.
- water: We have obtained 6 epochs of VLBA 22 GHz water maser data, monitoring the masers around the pulsating evolved star U Orionis.
- O: The epoch 1 and 2 H 2 O maser data has been largely reduced.
- oh: In it I used both VLBA and MERLIN observations to study circumstellar masers and did theoretical modeling of both water and OH masers.
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