Govind P. Agrawal

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Govind Prasad Agrawal (born July 24, 1951 in Kashipur ) is an Indian - American physicist who deals with laser physics and nonlinear optics .

Agrawal studied at the University of Lucknow with the Bachelor Accounts 1969 and the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi with the Master Accounts in 1971 and his doctorate in physics in 1974. As a post-graduate student he was in 1974 at up to 1976 polytechnique École and From 1977 to 1980 he conducted research in laser physics at the City University of New York . He then worked at Quantel in France and, from 1982, at Bell Laboratories in the semiconductor laser department. In 1989 he became an Associate Professor and in 1992 Professor at the University of Rochester .

Agrawal made contributions in particular to optical communications technology, non-linear glass fiber optics and semiconductor lasers. He is the author of several textbooks.

In 2012 he received the IEEE's Quantum Electronics Award for continued contributions to fiber optic communications through innovative research and as the author of a number of prestigious textbooks . He is a Fellow of the IEEE , the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America , which presented him with its Max Born Award in 2019 .

Agrawal was Associate Editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America (Part B). He is a US citizen.

Fonts

  • with Niloy K. Dutta: Semiconductor Lasers, Van Nostrand, 2nd edition 1993
  • Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Academic Press / Elsevier, 4th edition 2007
  • Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, Wiley, 4th edition 2010
  • Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics, Academic Press, 2nd edition 2008
  • Lightwave Technology: Components and Devices, Wiley 2004
  • Lightwave Technology: Telecommunication Systems, Wiley 2005
  • Published in: Semiconductor Lasers: Past, Present and Future, AIP Press, 1995
  • Editor with Clifford Headley: Raman Amplification in Fiber Optical Communication Systems, Academic Press, 2005
  • with Malin Premaratne: Light propagation in gain media: optical amplifiers, Cambridge University Press 2011
  • with Yuri S. Kivshar: Optical solitons: from fibers to photonic crystals, Academic Press 2003
  • Editor with Robert W. Boyd : Contemporary Nonlinear Optics, Academic Press 1992

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Agrawal, Govind P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agrawal, Govind Prasad (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kashipur