Hermann A. House

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Hermann Anton Haus (also Freiherr von Haus; * August 8, 1925 in Laibach , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † May 21, 2003 in Lexington ) was an American physicist. He made significant contributions in the field of quantum optics and noise .

biography

Haus was the son of the doctor Freiherr Otto Maximilian Haus and Helene Hynek. He was the grandson of Anton Haus , the only imperial Grand Admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy , who posthumously was knighted. He completed a humanistic high school in Ljubljana. As part of the expulsions under Josip Broz Tito , Haus and his mother had to leave Yugoslavia in 1945 and were deported to Austria. There he studied at the Graz University of Technology and later in Vienna . He came to America in 1948 and graduated from Union College in Schenectady with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1949 . 1951 followed the Master of Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in 1954 the doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Haus was married to Eleanor Laggis Haus († May 7, 2008) and had 4 children. He died of a heart attack on May 21, 2003.

Research and Teaching

Hermann Haus became a professor at MIT in 1962, where he has researched and taught ever since. His main research topic is the noise in communications components and systems. In the 1970s, Hermann Haus developed the theory of mode locking for lasers. In the 1980s he made a major contribution to the theory of optical solitons . This was followed by the discovery of the Gordon-Haus effect (with James P. Gordon ), the beginning of work on squeezed quantum states as well as application-oriented work on mode-locked fiber lasers and filters for the controlled use of the Gordon-Haus effect.

Memberships and honors

Haus was a member of renowned scientific societies and academies, for example

He was the recipient of numerous scientific awards and prizes, among others

Fonts

  • Waves and Fields in Optoelectronics , Prentice Hall 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e MIT News Office: MIT Professor Hermann Haus dies at 77; What pioneer in optical communications
  2. ^ NYT online: Hermann A. Haus, 77, Leader in Optical Communications Research , May 27, 2003, last accessed on May 3, 2010
  3. ↑ see literature list in the obituary by Jeffrey H. Shapiro , Hermann Anton Haus, 1925–2003 , J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 6, 2004, p. 623 doi : 10.1088 / 1464-4266 / 6/8 / E02 .
personal data
SURNAME House, Hermann A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES House, Hermann Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Laibach
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 2003
Place of death Lexington