Adolf W. Lohmann

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Adolf Wilhelm Lohmann (born April 20, 1926 in Salzwedel ; † December 15, 2013 ) was a German physicist who dealt with optical information processing and holography . He was a professor of physics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

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Lohmann studied at the University of Hamburg , where he obtained his physics diploma in 1951 and his doctorate in 1953. Then he worked at the TH Braunschweig , where he became a professor. In 1958/59 he was a visiting scientist at the Royal Technical University in Stockholm and in 1961 he was a visiting scientist at the IBM research laboratory in San José . In 1963 he was permanently employed in the IBM research laboratory and headed the Optical Signal Processing Division. From 1967 he was a lecturer and from 1968 professor at the University of California, San Diego . In 1973 he returned to Germany to the newly created Chair for Applied Optics at the University of Erlangen. In 1992 he retired .

Around 1968 he and Byron R. Brown invented a method for generating computer-generated holograms (CGH). Two years earlier, both had introduced Fourier transform techniques for this purpose . He was a Fellow of the Optical Society of America , whose National Traveling Lecturer he was 1967/68.

Honors

literature

  • OSA Confers Honorary Title Upon Adolf Lohmann . In: Optics & Photonics . No. 4 , 2008, p. 6 ( online [PDF] biography).
  • Henry John Caulfield (Editor) Optical information processing: a tribute to Adolf Lohman , SPIE Press 2002

Fonts

  • Optical information processing , Universitätsverlag Ilmenau, 2006 (editor Stefan Sinzinger)
  • Editor with Markus E. Testorf, Jorge Ojeda-Castañeda: Selected papers on phase space optics , SPIE Press 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the appointment as professor at UCSD ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ BR Brown, AW Lohmann: Computer-generated Binary Holograms . In: IBM Journal of Research and Development . tape 13 , no. 2 , March 1969, p. 160-168 , doi : 10.1147 / around 132.0160 ( pdf ).
  3. ^ BR Brown, AW Lohmann: Complex Spatial Filtering with Binary Masks . In: Applied Optics . tape 5 , no. 6 June 1966, p. 967-969 , doi : 10.1364 / AO.5.000967 .
  4. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Lohmann, Adolf W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lohmann, Adolf Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzwedel
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2013