Erich P. Ippen | |
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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] In 2004, he received the Charles Hard Townes Award [7] and in 2006 the Frederic Ives Medal. [8]