Joseph A. Giordmaine

Joseph Anthony Giordmaine (born April 10, 1933 in Toronto ) is a Canadian physicist who specializes in lasers , optoelectronics , optical physics and nonlinear optics .

Giordmaine studied at the University of Toronto with a bachelor's degree in 1955 and at Columbia University with a master's degree in 1957 and his doctorate in 1960 with Charles H. Townes (on the use of measles as an amplifier in planetary astronomy). In 1961 he went to Bell Laboratories , where he initially dealt with the newly invented ruby lasers and frequency doubling and with non-linear optics. In 1965 he and Robert C. Miller developed the first tunable optical parametric oscillator . He became director of the laboratory in the 1970s and then held a number of management positions at Bell Laboratories and also at ATT. In the late 1980s he moved to NEC , where he helped set up a research center in Princeton. There he was vice president for physical research.

In 1986 he received the RW Wood Prize .

Auston is a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the IEEE , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Optical Society of America .

Web links

• Oral History Interview, IEEE 1995

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ^ Giordmaine, Miller Tunable Coherent Parametric Oscillation in at Optical Frequencies ${\displaystyle LiNbO_{3}}$ , Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 14, 1965, pp. 973-976