Robert L. Byer
Robert L. Byer ( born May 9, 1942 in Glendale, California) is an American physicist who deals with laser physics and nonlinear optics.
Life
Byer studied at the University of California, Berkeley ( among others in the laboratory of Sumner P. Davis), with a bachelor 's degree in 1964 and (after working at Spectra Physics, Mountain View 1964/65 ) at Stanford University with a master's degree in Applied Physics in 1967 and his doctorate in 1969 with Stephen E. Harris. In the same year he was appointed Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in 1974 and 1979, professor at Stanford. From 1980 to 1983 and from 1999 to 2002, he stood in front of the Department of Applied Physics. 1987 to 1992 he was Vice - Provost and Dean of Research, and from 1992 to 2000 director of the Center for Nonlinear Optical Materials. From 1997 to 2006 he was director of the Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory from 2006 to 2009 of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory. Since 2000 he has been co-director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center.
He is married and has four children. From 1989 to 1992 he was in the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics Letters from 2002 to 2006 by Proceedings of the IEEE.
Work
He demonstrated the first tunable parametric oscillator in the visible spectrum (optical parametric oscillator, OPO) and developed a Nd: YAG laser ( neodymium - doped yttrium -aluminum-garnet ) laser with an unstable resonator and Q-switch in Quanta Ray application lasers found for remote observation and precision spectroscopy with coherent anti -Stokes Raman scattering (Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering CARS).
In 1984, he developed a Nd: YAG laser with nichtplanarem ring oscillator (non -planar ring oscillator, NPRO ). Its frequency stability has been exploited, for example in lasers for gravitational wave detectors. Also in 1984, he developed diode laser - pumped Nd: YAG laser.
He conducts research on nonlinear optical materials and with diode -pumped solid -state lasers with applications to gravitational wave detectors ( LIGO, LISA ) and particle acceleration with lasers (Laser Electron Accelerator Program, LEAP ).
He has published over 500 scientific papers (2011) and holds approximately 50 patents. In 1984 he was co-founder of Light Waves Electronics Corporation, 1975 by Quanta Ray Incorporated and 2005 by Mobius Photonics.
Honors and Memberships
From 2010 he was Vice President of the American Physical Society, Fellow whose he is since 1992. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2000), the National Academy of Engineering ( 1987), the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1976 ), which he was president in 1994/95, and the IEEE ( laser and Electro- Optics Society of IEEE, which he was president in 1984/85 ).
- 2009 Willis E. Lamb Award
- 2009 Frederic Ives Medal
- 2009 IEEE Photonics Award
- 2000 IEEE Third Millennium Medal
- 1996 Quantum Electronics Award of the Lasers and Electro- Optics Society of IEEE
- 1998 Arthur L. Schawlow Award
- 1998 R. W. Wood Prize
- 1972 Adolph Lomb Medal
From 1995 to 1999, he stood before the California Council for Science and Technology ( CCST ), which he co-founded in 1989.
Since 2000 he is in the advisory board of the National Ignition Facility and 1992-1995 of the program committee of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.