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The humming telephone as an acoustic maser

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Beginning more than a century ago, undamped oscillations in active electroacoustic resonators were subjected to rigorous experimental and theoretical study. Such concepts as waveguiding, mode pulling, mode hopping, and bistability, which have been rediscovered in their laser context, were all recognized and at least partially understood in the apparatus known as the humming telephone.

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Casperson, L.W. The humming telephone as an acoustic maser. Opt Quant Electron 23, 995–1010 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00611436

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