Joseph W. Goodman

Joseph W. Goodman (born 20 century) is an American physicist and electrical engineer who deals with optics.

Goodman studied Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard University ( Bachelor's degree 1958) and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where in 1960 he earned his master's degree and doctorate in 1963. 1962/63 he was a post-doctoral researcher in Norway (Norwegian Defense Research Establishment). He then returned as a researcher at Stanford University, where he was an assistant professor in 1967, associate professor in 1969 and professor in 1972. In 1988 he was William E. Ayer Professor of Electrical and until 1996 he was Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering. From 2000 he is a professor emeritus. In 1973/74 he was a visiting professor at the Institut d' Optique in Orsay and in 1984 a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney.

He has held various high positions in the Optical Society of America ( OSA), among other things, he was its president in 1992. 1988 to 1990 he was Governor of the SPIE. He was co-founder and CEO of Opti Visions and ONI Systems and in the direction of some other companies in the optical industry.

In 1983 he was awarded the Max Born Award of the OSA for his contributions to physical optics, holography specifically, Synthetic Aperture Optics, image processing and speckle theory. In 1987 he received the Dennis Gabor Award for his contributions to the SPIE holography, optical information processing and optical computers. In 1990 he received the highest award of the OSA, the Frederic Ives Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal of SPIE and 2009 Emmett Leith Medal of the OSA. He received the 1971 FE Terman Award of the American Society of Engineering Education and the 1995 Esther Hoffman Beller Medal Education of OSA. 1978 to 1983 he was editor of the Journal of the Optical Society of America. 1988 to 1990 he was President of the International Commission of Optics ( ICO).

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He became an honorary doctorate from the University of Alabama in 1996.

Writings

  • Introduction to Fourier Optics, McGraw Hill, 1968, 3rd edition Roberts and Company, 2005 ( also translated into French, Masson 1972)
  • Statistical Optics, John Wiley 1985
  • Speckle Phenomena in Optics, Roberts and Company, 2006
  • RM Gray: Fourier Transforms: An Introduction for Engineers, Kluwer 1995
  • Synthetic Aperture Optics, in Emil Wolf (Editor) Progress in Optics, Bd.8, 1970
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