Erich P. Ippen

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Erich Peter Ippen (born March 29, 1940 in Fountain Hill , Pennsylvania ) is an American physicist who deals with laser physics and especially ultrashort pulses.

Ippen, the son of Arthur T. Ippen , studied electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is now the Elihu Thompson Professor of Electrical Engineering .

With Charles Shank at Bell Laboratories he succeeded in 1974 with a passively mode-locked dye laser for the first time the generation of ultrashort pulses (below 1 Piko -sec).

In 1989 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1997 he and Shanks received the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize for Laser Physics . In 2006 he received the Frederic Ives Medal and in 1981 the RW Wood Prize . In 1999 he was President of the Optical Society of America . Ippen is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • CV Shank, EP Ippen: Mode locking of dye lasers , in: Fritz Peter Schäfer (Ed.) Dye Lasers , Springer 1973, pp. 121-274.
  • EP Ippen, CV Shank, A. Dienes: Passive mode locking of the cw dye laser , Appl. Phys. Lett. 21, 348 (1972).
  • A. Dienes, EP Ippen, CV Shank: A mode-locked cw dye laser , Appl. Phys. Lett. 19: 258 (1971).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shank, Ippen Sub Picosecond Kilowatt Pulses from a mode locked cw dye laser , Applied Physics Letters Vol. 24, 1974, p. 373.
personal data
SURNAME Ippen, Erich P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ippen, Erich Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Fountain Hill , Pennsylvania