[9] He joined Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1958 shortly after he conceived the working principle of his gas discharge Helium Neon laser, and subsequently submitted his paper for publication which was reviewed by Samuel Goudsmit in 1960.

Its beam of infrared light was slightly less than half an inch wide and spread no more than a foot over a distance of a mile.

"[14] In 1966, Ali Javan and Theodore Maiman split a cash award presented to them by President Johnson honoring their work.

[18] Ali Javan and his colleagues pioneered in stabilizing laser frequencies with techniques utilizing the Lamb dip.

[20] Javan's group repeated the Michelson-Morley experiment with a new order of accuracy by turning their lasers in different directions with respect to the earth's motion.

[21]: 44 At MIT in the early 1960s, Ali Javan started a research project aimed at extending microwave frequency-measuring techniques into the infrared.

[5]: 46  The antenna responded to infrared laser light and generated current vibrating at the frequencies of the incident beams.

[25] In 2007, Javan was ranked Number 12 on The Daily Telegraph's list of the "Top 100 Living Geniuses".