Fiber Optical Amplifiers and Fiber Lasers in the Near Infrared: Research, Development, and Manufacturing at Cybel LLC
This talk will introduce and then survey the fascinating and rapidly evolving field of fiber optical amplifiers and fiber lasers in the near-infrared region of the spectrum. After an introduction to the basic optical physics and engineering of fiber optical amplifiers and lasers, current topics of research and development interest will be presented with examples of products now in development and manufacture at Cybel’s Bethlehem, PA R&D headquarters. Applications to fields as diverse as spectroscopy, spectral sensing, LIDAR, atom cooling and quantum computing, gravitational wave detection, and current lightwave telecommunications systems will be outlined.
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- Date: 22 Sep 2022
- Time: 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- Lehigh University
- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- United States 18015
- Building: Packard Laboratory
- Room Number: Packard 466
- Starts 08 September 2022 09:00 AM
- Ends 22 September 2022 06:40 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
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Dr. Robert Tench
Robert E. Tench received the B. A. in Physics from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA in 1978 and the Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1985. He has worked in research, development, and manufacturing of fiber optical technology at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems, the National Security Agency, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Cybel LLC, and RET and Associates LLC. Dr. Tench has authored over 95 journal and conference publications, has nine patents issued or pending, and has placed over a dozen products into manufacture. He is a Senior Member of Optica and the IEEE, and a member of SPIE and Sigma Xi. He is currently the Chief Scientific Officer
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Robert E. Tench received the B. A. in Physics from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA in 1978 and the Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA in 1985. He has worked in research, development, and manufacturing of fiber optical technology at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Agere Systems, the National Security Agency, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Cybel LLC, and RET and Associates LLC. Dr. Tench has authored over 95 journal and conference publications, has nine patents issued or pending, and has placed over a dozen products into manufacture. He is a Senior Member of Optica and the IEEE, and a member of SPIE and Sigma Xi. He is currently the Chief Scientific Officer of Cybel LLC, Bethlehem, PA and President and Chief Scientist of RET and Associates, Allentown, PA.