Prof. Ursula Keller wins the LIA 2013 Arthur Schawlow Award
ORLANDO, FL, July 12, 2013 — Prof. Dr. Ursula Keller, a pioneer in ultrafast laser research, is the first female recipient of the Laser Institute of America’s Arthur L. Schawlow Award.
Keller will receive her honor during the awards luncheon at LIA’s 32nd-annual International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics (ICALEO®) which will be held Oct. 6-10 at the Hyatt Regency® Miami Hotel.
“My fundamental mission is to explore and push the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology, using interdisciplinary understanding of the physics of lasers, semiconductors, and measurement technologies,” Keller says of her current work. “One of my current focus areas is high average power ultrafast lasers, where we push the performance frontier with SESAM mode-locked thin-disk lasers into the multi-100 W average output power regime. We have pushed pulse energy and the average power of ultrafast laser oscillators by four orders of magnitude from typically 1 nJ to >10 μJ and from ≈100 mW to >270 W directly from laser oscillators without additional amplifiers.”
The Arthur Schawlow Award of the Laser Institute of America (LIA) recognizes outstanding, career-long contributions to basic and applied research in laser science and engineering leading to fundamental understanding of laser materials interaction and/or transfer of laser technology for increased application in industry, medicine and daily life. Examples of fields of contribution include the following in addition to many relevant topics:
Laser spectroscopy and its application in materials processing and diagnostics
Laser-aided materials processing
Laser interaction with biological tissues
Development of new lasers
The Laser Institute of America (LIA) is the international society for laser applications and safety. Their mission is to foster lasers, laser applications, and laser safety worldwide.
Keller will receive her honor during the awards luncheon at LIA’s 32nd-annual International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics (ICALEO®) which will be held Oct. 6-10 at the Hyatt Regency® Miami Hotel.
“My fundamental mission is to explore and push the frontiers in ultrafast science and technology, using interdisciplinary understanding of the physics of lasers, semiconductors, and measurement technologies,” Keller says of her current work. “One of my current focus areas is high average power ultrafast lasers, where we push the performance frontier with SESAM mode-locked thin-disk lasers into the multi-100 W average output power regime. We have pushed pulse energy and the average power of ultrafast laser oscillators by four orders of magnitude from typically 1 nJ to >10 μJ and from ≈100 mW to >270 W directly from laser oscillators without additional amplifiers.”
The Arthur Schawlow Award of the Laser Institute of America (LIA) recognizes outstanding, career-long contributions to basic and applied research in laser science and engineering leading to fundamental understanding of laser materials interaction and/or transfer of laser technology for increased application in industry, medicine and daily life. Examples of fields of contribution include the following in addition to many relevant topics:
Laser spectroscopy and its application in materials processing and diagnostics
Laser-aided materials processing
Laser interaction with biological tissues
Development of new lasers
The Laser Institute of America (LIA) is the international society for laser applications and safety. Their mission is to foster lasers, laser applications, and laser safety worldwide.