Philip Russell (physicist)

Philip St. John Russell, FRS, ( born March 25, 1953 in Belfast, UK ) is a British physicist. He is a director at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society.

Life

Russell received his doctorate in 1979 with a thesis on volume holography was at Oxford University, where he studied since 1976 and since 1978, Junior Research Fellow of Oriel College. From 1982, he conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow and a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Technical University of Hamburg -Harburg. In 1986 he moved to the Department of fiber optics at the University of Southampton and focused his work on his concept of Photonic Crystal Fibers. This work he continued at the University of Bath from 1996 to 2005 and founded the Group for Photonics and Photonic Materials ( PPMG ). In October 2005, Russell was selected as one of three directors of that is in a building Max - Planck Research Group for Optics, Information and Photonics, Max Planck Society at the Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, University of Erlangen -Nuremberg in a W3 professorship appointed. From the research group out the new Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light was founded in 2009.

Work

From 1976, Russell completed a doctorate on optical properties of periodically structured materials at the University of Oxford. On this basis, he attacked the, by Eli Yablonovitch and Sajeev John 1987 considerations in terms of a band structure for light waves, similar to the physical model of explanation of the energy bands in solids. The practical implementation of this theory would, then the conclusion can be reached by a periodic structure of the refractive index. First attempts Russell 1991, so-called photonic crystal fibers ( PCF) were initially to produce unsuccessful. The first, through the glass-air refractive index effect, as predicted by theory, the light conductive fibers could produce Russell 1995. Since then he has worked at both the University of Bath and at the Max - Planck Research Group at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg in the improvement and further development of these glass fibers, to their applications, among others for the generation of particularly wide supercontinuum from lasers, optical applications, sensors and within the framework of a project of the Körber Foundation for biophysical experiments.

  • 2000, the Optical Society of America awarded him for the invention of photonic crystal fiber of Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M. Burley Prize.
  • In 2002 he won the Prize of the Department of Applied Optics of the British Institute of Physics.
  • Russell was awarded the Royal Society / Wolfson Research Merit Award.
  • In 2004 he was awarded the Thomas Young Prize of the Institute of Physics.
  • He was elected member of the British Royal Society (FRS ) in 2005.
  • Him the Körber Prize for his work on the photonic crystal fibers (PCF ) was awarded in 2005.
  • In 2005, Philip Russell as the third director of the leadership of Division 3 of the Max Planck Research Group for Optics, Information and Photonics, University of Erlangen.

Publications

  • Photonic Crystal Fibers. In: Science. Volume 299, 2003, pp. 358-362
  • Photonic Crystal Fiber. Finding the Holey Grail. In: Optics & Photonics News. Volume 18, 2007, pp. 26-31
  • Photonic Crystal Fibers. A Historical Account. In: IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society Newsletter. Volume 21, 2007, pp. 11-15
  • Patent on photonic crystal fibers (filed 2000, issued 2005)
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