Peter Moulton

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Peter Franklin Moulton (born May 27, 1946 in Springfield , Massachusetts ) is an American electrical engineer and physicist who specializes in fiber optics and lasers .

Moulton studied physics at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1958 and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1972 and a doctorate in 1975. He then worked in the quantum electronics group at MIT Lincoln Laboratories in Lexington . In 1985 he joined the start-up Schwartz Electro-Optics (SEO), where he became Vice President and founded and headed their research department in Concord . In 1998 the research department was spun off as Q-Peak and taken over by Physical Science Inc. in 2001 . At Q-Peak, Moulton was Vice President and CTO until he left in 2013 . He is currently a senior scientist in the Laser Technology and Applications Group at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory .

Moulton initially dealt with solid-state lasers and later with fiber lasers and non-linear optics . He invented the titanium: sapphire laser (1982). Moulton dealt with applications in the military sector, but also in environmental technology , the semiconductor industry , lasers for color screens and in medicine.

In 1997 he received the RW Wood Prize and the William Streifer Prize from IEEE-LEOS. In 2013 he received the IEEE Photonics Award . He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the IEEE and has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2000 .

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  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Biographies of Prize Recipients: Peter F. Moulton. IEEE, 2013, accessed November 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ Peter F. Moulton. In: Lincoln Laboratory: Staff Biographies. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, David Guery-Odelin: Advances in Atomic Physics: An Overview . World Scientific, 2011, ISBN 978-981-277-498-9 , p. 708 .
  5. ^ Peter Moulton (Q-Peak, Inc.): Laser Development at Q-Peak for Remote Sensing. (PDF) March 29, 2005, accessed on November 1, 2018 (slides for the presentation at the MRS Spring Meeting).
  6. ^ Peter Moulton (Q-Peak, Inc.): Advances in Solid State and Semiconductor Sources for Biomedicine. (PDF) June 10, 2013, accessed on November 1, 2018 (slides for the invited talk at CLEO2013).
  7. ^ MIT Lincoln Laboratory staff: Professional Societies Fellows. Retrieved November 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Moulton, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moulton, Peter Franklin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield , Massachusetts