Jonathan P. Heritage
Jonathan P. Heritage (born July 10, 1944 in Washington, DC ) is an American physicist and electrical engineer who specializes in optoelectronics and optical communications technology.
Heritage studied electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and at San Diego State University with a master's degree in 1971. He received his doctorate in 1975 from the University of Berkeley and was a post-doctoral student with Wolfgang Kaiser at the TU Munich and with Kenneth B. Eisenthal at Columbia University . From 1976 he was at Bell Laboratories(Electronics Research Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey) and from 1984 to 1991 at Bellcore (Guided Wave and Opto-Electronics department) where he became a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and received the Bellcore Award of Excellence in 1988. He is a professor at the University of California, Davis .
He deals with optical communication with (femtosecond) laser pulses and the manipulation of the shape of picosecond and later femtosecond laser pulses, with ultra-fast nonlinear optics and nonlinear fiber optics.
In 2008 he received the RW Wood Prize . In 1976 he received the Humboldt Research Award . In 1985 he became a Fellow of the Optical Society of America , in 1989 the American Physical Society and in 1990 the IEEE . In 2019, Heritage was elected to the National Academy of Engineering .
publication
- Editor with Martin C. Nuss: Special issue on ultrafast optics and electronics , IEEE journal of quantum electronics, Volume 28, No. 10, New York: IEEE, 1992
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Jonathan P. Heritage in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heritage, Jonathan P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist and electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Washington, DC |