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Erich P. Ippen

Erich P. Ippen
Known for	Nonlinear optics in optical waveguides and ultrashort-optical-pulse-generation techniques
Scientific career
Fields	Optical Physics, nonlinear optics and Quantum Electronics
Doctoral students	Juliet Gopinath^[1]

Erich P. Ippen is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).^[2] He holds appointments as the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus and Professor of Physics Emeritus. He is one of the leaders of RLE’s Optics and Quantum Electronics Group.^[3]

Ippen was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1985 for pioneering contributions to nonlinear optics in optical waveguides and ultrashort-optical-pulse-generation techniques. In 1989 he was also elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for his pioneering work in the generation, measurement, and application to physical systems of picosecond and femtosecond light pulses" ^[4] Professor Ippen is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In 1997 he was awarded the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science.^[5] He was president of the Optical Society of America in 2000.^[6] He is the recipient of OSA’s R. W. Wood Award (1981), Charles Hard Townes Medal (2004), and the Society's highest honor, the Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize (2006). Most recently, Ippen was named an Honorary Member of the Society in 2020.

References

^ Gopinath, Juliet Tara (2005), Studies of third-order nonlinearities in materials and devices for ultrafast lasers (Doctoral dissertation), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hdl:1721.1/33205
^ http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/MemberDirectory/28222.aspx
^ Ippen Biography at MIT
^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
^ Arthur L. Schawlow Prize
^ Past Presidents of the Optical Society of America