Richard M. Osgood

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Richard Magee Osgood Junior (born December 28, 1943 in Kansas City ) is an American optics engineer ( laser technology, nano-optics) and applied physicist. He is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Columbia University .

Life

Osgood studied at the United States Military Academy and graduated from there in 1965 with a bachelor's degree. He then completed a master's degree at Ohio State University, which he completed in 1968. Osgood received his PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1973 and then worked at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory until 1981. From 1981 he was an Associate Professor and from 1988 Higgins Professor at Columbia University . From 1984 to 1990 he was co-director of the University's Radiation Laboratory, and was founder in 1986 and until 1990 director of Columbia University's Microelectronics Sciences Laboratories (MSL).

In 1978 he was a visiting scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and in 1980 in the ad hoc committee for isotope separation with lasers. From 1982 to 1990 he advised the LANL. From 1985 he was on the Advisory Board of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA Defense Sciences Research Council). From 2000 to 2002 he was Associate Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory and, from 2002, Senior Director of the Nanoscience Center located there. He also served on the Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Board of the Department of Energy (DOE).

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His research activities moved mainly in two areas: 1. Solid state and surface physics and chemistry. 2. Optical physics and its components.

He dealt with many fundamental questions in optical physics, integrated optics, the development of new infrared and UV lasers, the chemical application of lasers for material processing (focus on the semiconductor industry).

In 2005 he demonstrated metamaterials with a negative refractive index for the first time in the near infrared range. In 2001 he developed novel photonic crystal fibers (PCF) with an elliptical cavity shape of the tubes and properties such as high birefringence with stable single-mode operation (zero walk off).

In 2001 he demonstrated Raman amplification (optical amplifiers) in SOI technology (silicon on insulator, i.e. silicon wires on an insulator base with dimensions in the sub-micrometer range) in integrated optics. In addition, he developed fast optical switches in the Integrated optics.

In 1981 he demonstrated with Thomas F. Deutsch and Daniel J. Ehrlich chemical etching of silicon in the micrometer range with an argon-ion laser, which heated the surface and generated chemical reactions in a chlorine gas or hydrogen chloride gas atmosphere. In the late 1970s, they also developed techniques for creating metal films using laser-induced photodissociation.

In 1979, together with Daniel Ehrlich and Peter Moulton, he developed a UV solid-state laser, back then the optically pumped solid-state laser with the shortest wavelength.

In the 2010s, for example, he deals with lift-off methods to produce monocrystalline thin films, for example from graphene (crystal ion slicing) and with methods for the production of silicon nanocrystals and nanowires for photonics.

Awards

During his time at MIT he received the Hertz Foundation Fellowship and in 1989 he became a Guggenheim Fellow for work on the interactions of light with solid surfaces. In 1969 he received the Samuel Burka Award from the US Avionics Laboratory and in 1991 the RW Wood Prize . He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America , the IEEE, and the American Physical Society (APS). From 1981 to 1988 he was Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. From 1991 to 1993 he was Distinguished Traveling Lecturer of the APS and 1986 to 1990 for IEEE LEOS and he was plenary speaker of the OITDA (Japanese Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association). For 2015 he was awarded the Quantum Electronics Award .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ S Zhang, W Fan, KJ Malloy, SRJ Brueck, NC Panoiu, RM Osgood, Near-infrared double negative metamaterials, Optics Express 13, 2005, 4922-4930
  3. ↑ Shuang Zhang, Wenjun Fan, NC Panoiu, KJ Malloy, RM Osgood, SRJ Brueck, Experimental demonstration of near-infrared negative-index metamaterials, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 95, 2005, 137404
  4. ↑ MJ Steel, Osgood, Elliptical-hole photonic crystal fibers, Optics Letters, Volume 26, 2001, pp. 229-231
  5. ↑ Steel, Osgood, Polarization and dispersive properties of elliptical-hole photonic crystal fibers, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Volume 19, 2001, pp. 496-503
  6. ↑ Richard Espinola, Jerry Dadap, Richard Osgood Jr, Sharee McNab, Yurii Vlasov, Raman amplification in ultrasmall silicon-on-insulator wire waveguides, Optics Express, Volume 12, 2004, pp. 3713-3718
  7. ^ RL Espinola, MC Tsai, James T Yardley, RM Osgood, Fast and low-power thermooptic switch on thin silicon-on-insulator, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Volume 15, 2003, pp. 1366-1368
  8. ^ Deutsch, Ehrlich, Osgood, Laser chemical technique for rapid direct writing of surface relief in silicon, Applied Physics Letters, Volume 38, 1981, pp. 1018-1020
  9. ↑ Ehrlich, Osgood, Deutsch, Laser microphotochemistry for use in solid-state electronics, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Volume 16, 1980, pp. 1233-1243
  10. ^ German, Ehrlich Osgood, Laser photodeposition of metal films with microscopic features, Applied Physics Letters, Volume 35, 1979, pp. 175-177
  11. ↑ Ehrlich, Osgood, Deutsch, Photodeposition of metal films with ultraviolet laser light, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, Volume 21, 1982, pp. 23-32
  12. ↑ Ehrlich, Moulton, Osgood Ultraviolet solid-state Ce: YLF laser at 325 nm, Optics Letters, Volume 4, 1979, pp 184-186
personal data
SURNAME Osgood, Richard M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osgood, Richard Magee junior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American optics engineer (laser technology, nano-optics) and applied physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City