William Thomas Silfvast is an American physicist well known for his contributions to gas discharge lasers,[1][2] soft x-ray lasers,[3] and as the author of the influential textbook Laser Fundamentals.[4] and also several thriller novels (see billsilfvast.com). Silfvast received his PhD in physics from the University of Utah and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford. He then spent much of his career at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey, with a Guggenheim Fellowship at Stanford in 1982–83. Later he became a professor and chairman of the Physics Department at the University of Central Florida's Center for Research in Electro-Optics and Lasers (CREOL). Silfvast remains a Professor Emeritus at UCF, and is now retired and living in Oregon. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and the IEEE.[5] In 2010 Silfvast was selected as one of 27 'Laser Luminaries' (laser pioneers) during the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the discovery of the laser.
William T. Silfvast | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Utah |
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| Institutions | Oxford University AT&T Bell Labs Stanford University University of Central Florida |
| Thesis | High Gain Laser Action in the Neutral Spectrum of Lead (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | Grant R. Fowles |
References
edit- ^ Silfvast, W. T.; Klein, M. B. (1970). "CW laser action on 24 visible wavelengths in Se II". Applied Physics Letters. 17 (9). AIP Publishing: 400–403. doi:10.1063/1.1653453. ISSN 0003-6951.
- ^ F. J. Duarte, Tunable Laser Optics (Elsevier-Academic, New York, 2003).
- ^ Silfvast, W. T.; Richardson, M. C.; Bender, H.; Hanzo, A.; Yanovsky, V.; Jin, F.; Thorpe, J. (1992). "Laser-produced plasmas for soft x-ray projection lithography". Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures. 10 (6). American Vacuum Society: 3126–3134. Bibcode:1992JVSTB..10.3126S. doi:10.1116/1.585942. ISSN 0734-211X. S2CID 120737144.
- ^ W. T. Silfvast, Laser Fundamentals (Cambridge University, Cambridge, 2004).
- ^ "APS Fellowship 1993". American Physical Society. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
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