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Thermodynamic data are a key resource in the search for new relationships between properties of chemical systems that constitutes the basis of the scientific discovery process. In addition, thermodynamic information is critical for development and improvement of all chemical process technologies. Historically, peer-reviewed journals are the major source of this information obtained by experimental measurement or prediction. Technological advances in measurement science have propelled enormous growth in the scale of published thermodynamic data (almost doubling every 10 years). This expansion has created new challenges in data validation at all stages of the data delivery process. Despite the peer-review process, problems in data validation have led, in many instances, to publication of data that are grossly erroneous and, at times, inconsistent with the fundamental laws of nature. This article describes a new global data communication process in thermodynamics and its impact in addressing these challenges as well as in streamlining the delivery of the thermodynamic data from "data producers" to "data users". We believe that the prolific growth of scientific data in numerous and diverse fields outside thermodynamics, together with the demonstrated effectiveness and versatility of the process described in this article, will foster development of such processes in other scientific fields.
We have measured the quantum-limited lpinewidth of a hard-edged unstable cavity gas laser. Our results confirm the predicted resonant behavior of the quantum-noise strength as a function of equivalent Fresnel number. This behavior is due to the nonorthogonality of the transverse eigenmodes. [S0031-9007(96) PACS numbers: 42.50.Lc Unavoidable quantum noise sets a limit to the coherence of a laser. The phase of the laser field diffuses under the influence of spontaneous emission, leading to the so-called Schawlow-Townes laser linewidth. This has been the subject of many theoretical and experimental investigations and is well understood for lasers with stable cavities and small losses per cavity transit [1,2]. The eigenmodes of such a laser form a set of orthogonal modes. For stable cavity lasers which have large mirror transmission and for lasers which operate on an unstable cavity the eigenmodes are nonorthogonal; as a consequence the Schawlow-Townes linewidth is enhanced by the so-called K factor or excess-noise factor [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Strong enhancement of the quantum-limited linewidth of unstable cavity lasers has been predicted and observed for a solid-state laser with a variable reflectivity mirror (VRM) [10,11] and most recently also in a hard-edged-mirror solid-state laser [12]. It has been predicted [4-6], but not yet verified, that this enhancement shows resonant behavior as a function of the equivalent Fresnel number. This resonance will occur only in hard-edged resonators, since it is essential that the shape of the transverse mode profile is determined by the precise cavity dimensions. In our experiments on a hard-edged unstable cavity gas laser we have been able to confirm this most intriguing aspect of unstable-resonator quantum-noise theory: the resonance of the quantum noise with equivalent Fresnel number.In a hard-edged unstable resonator a fraction of the reproducing mode spills, each round-trip, over a small feedback mirror. We call this mode the matched mode. It is biorthogonal to the so-called adjoint mode, which is a direction-reversed version of the matched mode [5,10,13]. It has been shown that the K factor is identical to the injected wave excitation factor, which is the factor by which the power of the mode, when excited by the adjoint mode, exceeds that when using matched-mode excitation [3,5]. This factor, and thus the K factor, depends strongly on the precise shape of the transverse mode profile. We emphasize that there exists no fundamental relation between large losses (or gain) and excess noise factors; two different transverse mode profiles that have identical diffraction losses may have K factors that differ by orders of magnitude if their nonorthogonality differs appreciably.Note that the quantum-noise properties of a hard-edged unstable-resonator laser are described by two parameters only: the round-trip linear magnification M and the equivalent Fresnel number N eq ͑M 2 2 1͒a 2 ͞2MlB where l is the wavelength, a is the radius of the small feedback mirror, and B...
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