| Biography |
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Eric Van Stryland received a PhD in Physics in 1976 from the University of Arizona, Optical Sciences Center, where he worked on optical coherent transients and photon counting statistics. He worked in the areas of femtosecond pulse production, multiphoton absorption in solids, and laser induced damage at the Center for Laser Studies at the Univ. of Southern California. He joined the University of North Texas in l978 helping to form the Center for Applied Quantum Electronics. In l987 he joined the newly formed CREOL (Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers) at the University of Central Florida (UCF). NSF has funded him for the past 29 years. His current research interests are in the characterization of the nonlinear optical properties of materials and their temporal response as well as the applications of these nonlinear materials properties for optical switching, etc. He helped develop the Z-scan and also established the methodology for applying Kramers-Kronig relations to ultrafast nonlinearities and helped develop the field of cascaded second-order effects. He is a fellow of the OSA, a former member of their Board, a senior member of the Laser Institute of America and a former board member, a Fellow of SPIE, and IEEE and a member of the APS, SPIE, and MRS. He also served as a topical editor for Optics Letters. He was elected Vice President of the OSA which led to becoming President in 2006. He graduated 27 Ph.D.'s and published ~300 papers and is on the ISI ‘highly cited’ list. In 2003 he was awarded the highest honor UCF bestows, the Pegasus Award. He was Director of the School of Optics/CREOL from July 1999 to May of 2004. With the elevation of the School to a College, he became its first Dean (retired as Dean 2009). In addition, Governor Bush established the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) in 2003 and he was Director of that Center along with CREOL until he retired in 2009. The Townes Laser Institute is the latest addition to CREOL which began as a second round of the FPCE and was established during his administration.
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| Awards & Honors |
| 2009 |
2008/2009 Research Incentive Award (RIA)
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| 2008 |
Elected IEEE Fellow
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| 2007 |
Office of Research & Commercialization Millionaire's Club
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| 2006 |
Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant
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| 2006 |
President of the OSA
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| 2005 |
Fellow of the SPIE
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| 2005 |
Florida Trend magazine's one of the "174 Most Influential Floridians"
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| 2001 |
Appointed to the Mayor of Orlando’s (Glenda Hood) High Technology Advisory Board
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| 1999 |
Graduate Teacher of the Year, School of Optics
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| 1998 |
University of Central Florida PEP award
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| 1997 |
Elected to the Board of Directors of the OSA
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| 1995 |
Honorary Professor
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| 1995 |
Topical editor for Optics Letters; Nonlinear Optics
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| 1995 |
Honorary Prof., School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
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| 1993 |
Fellow of the Optical Society of America
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| 1991 |
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “Nonlinear Optics”
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| 1991 |
Invited member Phi-Kappa-Phi
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| 1990 |
Researcher of the year
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| 1986 |
Co-Recipient of the NTSU President’s Award
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| 1978 |
Member of the Editorial Board of “Review of Scientific Instruments”
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| Key Publications and Presentations |
| Book Chapters | | 2003 |
E. W. Van Stryland and D. J. Hagan "Nonlinear Absorption" "Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering", Marcel Dekker |
| 1999 |
M. Sheik-Bahae and E. Van Stryland "Optical Nonlinearities in the Transparency Region of Bulk Semiconductors" Eds. Elsa Garmire and Alan Kost, Chap. 4, 257-318, Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors I, Academic Press |
| 1998 |
Eric Van Stryland and M. Sheik-Bahae "Z-scan" Characterization Techniques and Tabulations for Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials, eds. Mark Kuzyk and Carl Dirk, Marcel Decker |
| 1998 |
Van Stryland, Eric "Introduction to Ultrafast and Cumulative Nonlinear Absorption and Refraction" Beam shaping and control with nonlinear optics, Eds. F. Kajzar and R. Reinisch, Plenum, p. 39, New York |
| 1994 |
E. Van Stryland and L. Chase "Two Photon Absorption: inorganic materials" Handbook of Laser Science and Technology; supplement 2: Optical Materials, section 8, pp. 299-328, Ed. M. Weber, CRC Press |
| Refereed Papers | | 2003 |
Negres, R. A.; Hales, J. M.; Kobyakov, A.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Experiment and analysis of two-photon absorption spectroscopy using a white-light continuum probe (vol 38, pg 1205, 2002)" Ieee Journal of Quantum Electronics. 39(2) 392-392 |
| 2002 |
Negres, R. A.; Hales, J. M.; Hagan, D. J.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Experiment and analysis of two-photon absorption spectroscopy using a white-light continuum probe" Ieee Journal of Quantum Electronics. 38(9) 1205-1216 |
| 1999 |
Sheik-Bahae, M.; Van Stryland, E. W. "Optical nonlinearities in the transparency region of bulk semiconductors" Nonlinear Optics in Semiconductors I. 58257-318 |
| 1994 |
T. Xia, D.J. Hagan, M. Sheik-Bahae, and E.W. Van Stryland "Eclipsing Z-Scan Measurement of (lambda/10^4) Wavefront Distortion" Opt. Lett. 19, 317-319 |
| 1992 |
R.J. DeSalvo, D.J. Hagan, M. Sheik-Bahae, G. Stegeman, H. Vanherzeele and E.W. Van Stryland "Self-Focusing and Defocusing by Cascaded Second Order Effects in KTP" Opt. Lett. 17, 28 |
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| Research |
| Characterize NLO Response from Femtoseconds to Nanoseconds | | Develop NLO Spectroscopic Techniques |
| Develop Ultrasensitive Techniques for Measuring Material Nonlinearities |
| Develop NLO Devices | | Optical Switching |
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| Identify Candidate NLO Materials and Thin Films | | |
| Model and Understand NLO Material | | |
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