ERICH P. IPPEN, Elihu Thomson
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Physics
Research Interests
Professor Ippen's research activities are in the field of optics,
with particular focus on femtosecond science and ultra-highspeed
devices. He and his group have invented methods for generating extremely
short (femtosecond) pulses of light with lasers; they develop new
measurement techniques to take advantage of the time resolution
that these pulses provide; and, with these techniques, they excite
and probe ultrafast phenomena in materials. Professor Ippen's group
is also developing ultrashort-pulse fiber-optic devices for a variety
of applications including optical communications and signal processing.
Current specific topics of research include:
- Sub-two-cycle pulse generation with solid state lasers;
- Ultrafast carrier dynamics in semiconductors and metals;
- Photonic bandgap structures, and
- Optical fiber lasers and data storage loops for ultra-highspeed
all-optical networks.
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