Adolf Giesen (physicist)
Adolf Giesen (* 1946 ) is a German physicist who works with lasers . He developed the disk laser .
Giesen received his doctorate in physics in 1982 at the University of Bonn (dissertation: resonator-internal frequency doubling of a dye ring laser up to a wavelength of 282 nm for the detection of the OH molecule ). From 1982 to 1986 worked on high-power carbon dioxide lasers at the Institute for Technical Physics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Stuttgart. From 1986 to 2007 he was head of the laser and optics department at the newly founded Institute for Beam Tools (IFSW) at the University of Stuttgart . There he worked on high-power carbon dioxide lasers, solid-state lasers, phase coupling of diode lasers, disk lasers, characterization of laser beams and optical components and industrial laser applications. In 2006 he completed his habilitation at the University of Stuttgart (Faculty of Mechanical Engineering) and was a private lecturer there. From 2007 he was director of the Institute for Technical Physics at DLR in Stuttgart.
In the early 1990s, he developed the disk laser in Stuttgart.
In 2002 he and his disk laser group received the Berthold Leibinger Innovation Prize , the Rank Prize in 2004 and the Charles Hard Townes Award in 2017 .
Fonts
- A. Giesen, H. Hügel, A. Voss, K. Wittig, U. Brauch, H. Opower: Scalable concept for diode-pumped high-power solid-state lasers. In: Applied Physics B. 58, No. 5, 1994, pp. 365-372.
Web links
- CV, pdf
- Industry forum for the inaugural lecture as a private lecturer in Stuttgart 2006 (January 25, 2007)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography in IEEExplore , from the essay by Giesen u. a., Efficient Gallium-Arsenide Disk Laser, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Volume 43, 2007, pp. 869-875
- ↑ Habilitation thesis: The disk laser. Results and scaling laws
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| SURNAME | Giesen, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |