Faculty

ERICH IPPEN
Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering
Professor of Physics, Emeritus

ERICH P. IPPEN, Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Physics

Name: Erich P. Ippen

Title(s): Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering
Professor of Physics, Emeritus

Email: ippen@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 253-8504

Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 36-319
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Area of Physics:

Condensed Matter Experiment

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.

Biographical Sketch

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Selected Publications

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