Eric Van Stryland

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Eric W. Van Stryland (born June 3, 1947 in South Bend , Indiana ) is an American physicist who specializes in laser physics and nonlinear optics .

Van Stryland earned his bachelor's degree from Humboldt State University in 1970 and his master's degree from the University of Arizona in 1975 , where he received his PhD in 1976 with Marlan Scully . He then worked at the Center for Laser Studies at the University of Southern California and, from 1978 to 1987, a professor at North Texas State University , where he helped to set up the Center for Applied Quantum Electronics. Since 1987 he has been a professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF). From 1999 to 2004 he was director of the School of Optics (CREOL) there. After converting it to a college, he was its dean until 2009.

He dealt with coherent optical transients and photon statistics, ultrashort laser pulses in the femtosecond range, their generation and application, multiphoton absorption, damage caused by lasers and with non-linear optical material properties including their time dependence and application (sensor protection, beam control, optical switches). With Mansoor Sheik-Bahae he developed the Z-Scan technique for measuring nonlinear optical properties (absorption coefficient and refractive index), he applied Kramers-Kronig relations to ultrafast nonlinearities and investigated cascade effects of second order nonlinearities.

He is a Fellow of (and was President of) the Optical Society of America , the SPIE, the IEEE Photonics Society, and the American Physical Society . In 2012 he received the RW Wood Prize with Sheik-Bahae and he received the UCF's highest award, the Pegasus Award.

With Michael Bass and others he was editor of the Handbook of Optics (5 volumes, McGraw Hill).

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Mansoor Sheik-Bahae, Ali A Said, TH Wei, David J Hagan, Eric W Van Stryland, Sensitive measurement of optical nonlinearities using a single beam, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Volume 26, 1990, pp. 760-769, abstract . One of the most cited articles in the journal
  3. ↑ Sheik Bahae, Said, Stryland: High-sensitivity, single-beam measurements, Optics Letters, Volume 14, 1989, pp. 955-957
  4. ^ J Wang, M Sheik-Bahae, AA Said, DJ Hagan, EW Van Stryland: Time-resolved Z-scan measurements of optical nonlinearities, Journal of the Optical Society of America, Volume 11, 1994, pp. 1009-1017
  5. ↑ DC Hutchings, M Sheik-Bahae, DJ Hagan, EW Van Stryland: Kramers-Kronig relations in nonlinear optics, Optics and Quantum Electronics, Volume 24, 1991, 1-30
  6. ↑ R DeSalvo, H Vanherzeele, DJ Hagan, M Sheik-Baha, G Stegeman, EW Van Stryland: Self-focusing and self-defocusing by cascaded second-order effects in KTP, Optics Letters, Vol 17, 1992, 28-30
personal data
SURNAME Van Stryland, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Van Stryland, Eric W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH South Bend , Indiana