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Erich P. Ippen Awarded the Ives Medal of the Optical
Society of America:
The OSA's highest award recognizes Ippen for vision
and sustained leadership in the field of optics
For Immediate Release
MONDAY, 12 June 2006
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
Director for Finance and Sponsor Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
CAMBRIDGE, MA. 06.12.2006
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces
that Professor Erich
P. Ippen, a principal investigator
in RLE and a member of both the Departments of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and of Physics
at MIT, was awarded the Optical Society of America's
(OSA) Frederic Ives Medal of the Jarus W. Quinn Endowment.
The Ives Medal is the OSA's highest honor, and recognizes
Professor Ippen for "...laying the foundations
of ultrafast science and engineering, and providing
vision and sustained leadership to the optics community." The
Ives Medal will be presented to Professor Ippen in
October 2006 at the OSA's 90th Annual Meeting in Rochester,
New York.
Professor Ippen and his group in RLE have pioneered
important new areas of optics, particularly in the
areas of femtosecond science and ultra-highspeed devices,
inventing new methods for generating extremely short
bursts of light using lasers, innovating techniques
to exploit the time resolution such pulses provide,
and using these new techniques to probe ultrafast phenomena
in materials.
Said Jeffrey
H. Shapiro, RLE Director and Julius A.
Stratton Professor of Electrical Engineering, "Professor
Ippen is an extraodinary scientist, engineer and scholar.
Many key concepts and achievements of modern optics
originate with his work, and his group in RLE continues
to push the boundaries of our understanding of optical
phenomena and the potential revolutionary applications
of that new understanding. Professor Ippen, in addition,
is a marvelous colleague, a leader both within MIT
and on the world stage in the field of optics, and
a devoted teacher and mentor of students. I can think
of no one more deserving of the Ives Medal."
Founded in 1916, the OSA was organized to increase
and diffuse the knowledge of optics, pure and applied;
to promote the common interests of investigators of
optical problems, of designers and of users of optical
apparatus of all kinds; and to encourage cooperation
among them. The modern mission of OSA is to promote
the generation, application and archiving of knowledge
in optics and photonics and to disseminate this knowledge
worldwide.
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