Erich P. Ippen

Erich P. Ippen
Known forNonlinear optics in optical waveguides and ultrashort-optical-pulse-generation techniques
Scientific career
FieldsOptical Physics, nonlinear optics and Quantum Electronics
Doctoral studentsJuliet 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.

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/MemberDirectory/28222.aspx
  3. ^ Ippen Biography at MIT
  4. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
  5. ^ Arthur L. Schawlow Prize
  6. ^ Past Presidents of the Optical Society of America