Michael Bass (physicist)

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Michael Bass (born October 24, 1939 in New York City ) is an American physicist who deals with laser physics , especially solid-state lasers.

Bass studied at Carnegie Mellon University with a bachelor's degree in 1960 and at the University of Michigan with a master's degree in 1962 and a doctorate in physics in 1964. He was then acting assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley , 1966 until 1966 with Raytheon until 1973 and initially Associate Director and then Director of the Center for Laser Studies at the University of Southern California in 1973 . In addition, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering there from 1981 and from 1984 to 1989 head of the Faculty of Laser Physics. From 1993 he was a professor at the University of Central Florida (College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL).

He deals with the development of optically pumped high-power solid-state lasers, semiconductor lasers for optical pumping and their cooling, Bragg gratings for solid-state laser resonators and fiber lasers . He also developed new types of glass fibers that can be stimulated to emit light, for example in new screen technologies.

He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America , the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the IEEE, and the IEEE Photonics Society. In 2014 he received the RW Wood Prize .

Fonts

  • with Walter Koechner : Solid state lasers , Springer Verlag 2003
  • Published in: Laser materials processing , North Holland 1983
  • Published in: Laser Handbook , Volume 5, North Holland 1985

He is editor of the Handbook of Optics (5 volumes, McGraw Hill in association with the Optical Society of America) - with Eric Van Stryland and others - and the Fiber Optics Handbook (McGraw Hill 2002).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ William Hageman, Jung-Hyun Cho, Michael Bass, Dennis G. Deppe, Thomas Hawkins, Paul Foy, John Ballato: Novel Visible Light Emitting Optical Fibers Using Up-Conversion, Journal of Display Technology, Volume 7, 2011, p. 295 -300
personal data
SURNAME Bass, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City