Stephen E. Harris

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Stephen E. Harris

Stephen Ernest Harris (born November 29, 1936 in Brooklyn ) is an American physicist and electrical engineer, known for contributions to laser physics and nonlinear optics .

Harris studied electrical engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ( Bachelor in 1959) and at Stanford University , where he received his master’s degree in 1961 and his doctorate in 1963 under Anthony E. Siegman ( Demodulation of frequency-modulated light ). While still a student he was a member of Bell Laboratories from 1959/60 and from 1961 to 1963 at Sylvana Electronics Systems . In 1963 he became an assistant professor, an associate professor in 1967 and a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University in 1971. Since 1979 he has also been Professor of Applied Physics (Kenneth and Barbara Oshman Professor) . 1983 to 1991 he was the successor to Siegman director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory in Stanford. From 1993 to 1996 he headed the Faculty of Applied Physics.

He invented the FM laser (FM for frequency modulation ) in the 1960s .

Harris developed proposals for lasers in the extreme UV and X-ray range in the 1980s.

In the late 1980s he was involved in the development of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT). The idea was contained in a proposal by Harris on lasers without inversion and became independent of Olga Kocharovskaya and Ya. I. Khanin proposed in the Soviet Union. It was demonstrated by Harris in 1991 with Klaus Boller and Atac Imamoglu in strontium and lead gas.

He has published over 220 scientific articles (2010) and holds 16 patents.

In 1976 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . He is a Fellow of the IEEE , the Optical Society of America, and the American Physical Society . He became a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering in 1977, the National Academy of Sciences in 1981 , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994 .

In 1965 he received the Alfred Noble Prize , the IEEE's David Sarnoff Award in 1981 and its Quantum Electronics Award in 1994. In 1985 he received the Charles H. Townes Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA) and its Frederic Ives Medal in 1999 , the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize for Laser Physics in 2002 and the Harvey Prize in 2007 . In 2013 he was made an honorary member of the OSA, and in 2020 he was awarded the Willis E. Lamb Prize .

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  1. ^ Demodulation of frequency-modulated light. In: searchworks.stanford.edu. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Stephen Harris: Anthony E. Siegman 1931-2011 . In: National Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Biographical Memoir . 2018 ( nasonline.org [PDF]).
  3. ^ SE Harris, Russell Targ: FM oscillation of the He-Ne Laser . In: Applied Physics Letters . tape 5 , no. 10 , November 15, 1964, p. 202-204 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.1723588 .
  4. ^ S. Harris, O. McDuff: Theory of FM laser oscillation . In: IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics . tape 1 , no. 6 , September 1965, p. 245 - 262 , doi : 10.1109 / JQE.1965.1072231 .
  5. ↑ SE HARRIS: Stabilization and modulation of the laser oscillator by Internal Time-Varying perturbation . In: Applied Optics . tape 5 , no. October 10 , 1966, p. 1639-1651 , doi : 10.1364 / AO.5.001639 .
  6. ^ SE Harris: Lasers without inversion: Interference of lifetime-broadened resonances . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 62 , no. 9 , February 27, 1989, p. 1033-1036 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.62.1033 .
  7. ↑ Lasing without inversion. In: Encyclopedia of Laser Physics and Technology. RP Photonics. The effect was demonstrated by Marlan Scully in 1994 .
  8. ↑ K.-J. Boller, A. Imamolu, SE Harris: Observation of electromagnetically induced transparency . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 66 , no. 20 , May 20, 1991, pp. 2593-2596 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.66.2593 .
  9. ^ JE Field, KH Hahn, SE Harris: Observation of electromagnetically induced transparency in collisionally broadened lead vapor . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 67 , no. 22 , November 25, 1991, pp. 3062-3065 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.67.3062 .
  10. ^ Alfred Noble Prize | ASCE | Past Award Winners. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
  11. ^ Quantum Electronics Award Winners. IEEE Photonics Society, accessed November 26, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Stephen Harris Named Honorary Member of OSA. In: photonics.com. October 23, 2013, accessed November 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Harris, Stephen E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Harris, Stephen Ernest (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn