Tuesday, December 08, 2009
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
Spalding Laboratory 106 (Hartley Memorial Seminar Room)
Applied Physics Seminar
Series: Applied Physics Seminar Series
Research on a New Generation of Optoelectronic Devices
Amnon Yariv,
Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and professor of electrical engineering,
Caltech,
Speaker's Bio:
Professor Yariv came to Caltech in 1964 after obtaining a Ph.D. (1958) in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a four year stint at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. At Caltech, Professor Yariv started teaching new courses in Quantum Electronics and developed the material in standard texts. He also taught the first solid state physics course, EE 114. His research was mostly in the area of theoretical and experimental nonlinear optics and included the first quantum mechanical formulation of nonlinear wave interactions and the first theoretical formulation of mode-locking of lasers. Additionally, he is one of the three co-founders of the field of Phase Conjugate Optics. In the semiconductor laser field, he has proposed and demonstrated the fields of Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits (combining optics and electronics monolithically on single crystal wafers) and the Semiconductor Distributed Feedback (DFB) laser which powers all of todays optical fiber networks. Professor Yariv co-founded ORTEL corporation and a number of optoelectronics startups. Professor Yariv is a member of the National Academies of Science and of Engineering, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Yariv came to Caltech in 1964 after obtaining a Ph.D. (1958) in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a four year stint at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. At Caltech, Professor Yariv started teaching new courses in Quantum Electronics and developed the material in standard texts. He also taught the first solid state physics course, EE 114. His research was mostly in the area of theoretical and experimental nonlinear optics and included the first quantum mechanical formulation of nonlinear wave interactions and the first theoretical formulation of mode-locking of lasers. Additionally, he is one of the three co-founders of the field of Phase Conjugate Optics. In the semiconductor laser field, he has proposed and demonstrated the fields of Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits (combining optics and electronics monolithically on single crystal wafers) and the Semiconductor Distributed Feedback (DFB) laser which powers all of todays optical fiber networks. Professor Yariv co-founded ORTEL corporation and a number of optoelectronics startups. Professor Yariv is a member of the National Academies of Science and of Engineering, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
"Research on a New Generation of Optoelectronic Devices," Amnon Yariv, Martin and Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics and professor of electrical engineering, Caltech.
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