Günter Huber (physicist)

Günter Huber (* 1947 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German laser physicist.

Huber obtained his diploma from the University of Karlsruhe and received his doctorate in 1975 from the University of Stuttgart . Then he was at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and at the Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Hamburg , where he completed his habilitation . In 1982 he became a professor at the University of Hamburg, where in 1991 he became director of the newly founded Institute for Laser Physics. In 2000 he became vice dean and from 2003 to 2006 he was dean of the Faculty of Physics. He has been a member of the Hamburg University Senate since 2008 .

He deals with solid-state lasers and new laser materials (crystal growth, development, characterization) from transition metals and rare earth ions , optical spectroscopy of solids, diode-pumped solid - state lasers, up-conversion lasers based on crystals and fibers, non-linear frequency conversion of solid-state lasers. He and his group developed ytterbium-doped disk lasers of high power.

Huber is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and, since 2016, the Russian Academy of Sciences . In 2003 he received the Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize of the European Physical Society and in 2013 he received the Charles Hard Townes Award .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Günter Huber, Head of Group. Institute for Laser Physics, University of Hamburg(English). 
• Main results of the Huber research group. Institute for Laser Physics, University of Hamburg(English).