David Hanna

This article is about the physicist David Hanna. The politician of the same name can be found under David J. Hanna .

David Colin Hanna (born December 10, 1941 in Nottingham ) is a British physicist who specializes in nonlinear optics and laser physics.

Hanna studied mathematics and physics at the University of Cambridge with a degree in 1962. He then spent a year at the Marconi Research Laboratories as a trainee in electronics and from 1963 at the University of Southampton in the electronics department, where he received his doctorate in 1967. He became a lecturer there in 1967 and professor in 1988. From 1989 he was deputy director of the Optoelectronics Research Center at the University of Southampton.

He was a visiting scholar at the Polytechnic in Milan (1971), at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (1978/9), at the Max Born Institute in Berlin (2001, 2003) and as a Carl Zeiss visiting professor at the University of Jena ( 2006).

He carried out fundamental studies on nonlinear optical processes in gases and atomic vapors, on optical parametric oscillators and nonlinear optical materials with quasi phase matching . In the field of laser physics, he made contributions to resonates and mode control and to the development of solid-state lasers including fiber lasers and waveguide lasers .

In 2003 he received the Charles Hard Townes Award and in 1993 the Max Born Prize . In 2000 he received the Quantum Electronics Prize of the European Physical Society. He also received a Humboldt Research Award . In 1998 he became a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Royal Society .

He translated Orazio Svelto's textbook on lasers into English.

Fonts

• Nonlinear Optics of Free Atoms and Molecules, Springer, Topics in Current Physics 1980

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Southampton