Philip Russell

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Philip St. John Russell , FRS , (born March 25, 1953 in Belfast , UK ) is a British physicist. He is director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and a scientific member of the Max Planck Society.

Life

Russell received his PhD in 1979 with a thesis on volume holography from Oxford University , where he studied since 1976 and was a Junior Research Fellow at Oriel College since 1978 . From 1982 he did research as a postdoc and fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg . In 1986 he moved to the Department of Fiber Optics at the University of Southampton and focused his work on his concept for photonic crystal fibers. He continued this work at the University of Bath from 1996 to 2005, where he founded the group for photonics and photonic materials (PPMG). In October 2005, Russell as one of three directors of, is being established Max Planck Research Group for Optics, Information and Photonics of the Max Planck Society at the Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in a W3 professorship called. The new Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light was founded in 2009 from the research group .

Act

From 1976 on, Russell received his doctorate on the optical properties of periodically structured materials at Oxford University. On this basis, he took up the considerations made by Eli Yablonovitch and Sajeev John in 1987 with regard to a band structure for light waves, similar to the physical explanatory model of the energy bands in solids. The practical realization of this theory would, so the conclusion, be achieved by a periodic structuring of the refractive index . Russell's first attempts in 1991 to produce so-called photonic crystal fibers (PCF) were initially unsuccessful. In 1995, Russell was able to manufacture the first light-guiding glass fibers thanks to the glass-air refractive index effect, as theoretically predicted. Since then he has been working both at the University of Bath and at the Max Planck Research Group at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg on the improvement and further development of these glass fibers, on their applications, among other things, for the generation of particularly wide supercontinua from lasers , optical applications, sensors and as part of a project of the Körber Foundation for biophysical experiments.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Philip Russell is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. University of Bath, June 7, 2005, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Physics professors receive Rank Prize for optical fiber discoveries. University of Bath, February 15, 2018. Retrieved on October 31, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Russell, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Russell, Philip St. John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast , UK