Research Interests

Non-linear optics; integrated optics and semiconductor photonic devices; lasers; electro-optics; fiber optics

Education

• AB, Physics, Harvard University 1961
• PhD, Physics, MIT 1965

Awards

• National Academy of Inventors® (NAI) Charter Fellow (2014)
• National Associate of the National Academies (2004)
• Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996)
• Fellow, American Physical Society (1994)
• Life Member, National Academy of Engineering (1989)
• Fellow and Life Member, Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (1980)
• Fellow. Optical Society of America (1981)
• Achievement Award and Fellow, Society of Women Engineers (1994)

Professional Activities

• President, Optical Society of America 1995
• Presidential Medal of Science Selection Committee 1996-1998
• Councillor, National Academy of Engineering 2002-2008
• Chair, National Academy Committee to Assess Technological Literacy 2002-2006
• Councilor at Large, American Physical Society 1995-1997
• Councillor, IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society 1984-1987
• Director-at-Large, Optical Society of America 1983-1986
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, U. C. Berkeley 1999-2000
• Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 1985-1989
• Harvard University Division of Engineering and Applied Physics Visiting Committee 1989-1995

Experience:

• Thayer School faculty since 1995
• Dean, Thayer School of Engineering 1995-1997
• William Hogue Professor of Electrical Engineering; Professor of Physics; and Director, Center for Laser Studies: University of Southern California 1975-1995
• Consultant, The Aerospace Corporation 1975-1992
• Visiting Scientist, Thomson CSF, France 1974
• Visiting Scientist, ITT Standard Telecom Labs 1973-1974
• Senior Research Fellow, Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology 1966-1973

Selected Publications

• "Optical vibration detection with a photoconductance monitoring array," (P. Heinz and E. Garmire) Applied Physics Letters 84 (16): 3196-3198 APR 19 2004
• "Speed enhancement in a photorefractive multiple quantum well modulator by pulsed illumination," (A. K. Abeeluck, P. Heinz and E. Garmire) Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, (3), pp. 311-313 (2001).
• "Resonant optical nonlinearities in semiconductors," (E. Garmire) IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quantum Electron 6 (#6), pp. 1094-1110 (2000). INVITED REVIEW PAPER, in the "Millennium Issue"
• "Wavelength dependence of combined local and carrier transport optical nonlinearities in a hetero n-i-p-i structure" (A. R. Kost, M. H. Jupina, T. C. Hasenberg and E. M. Garmire) J. of Appl. Phys. 99 (2): Art. No. 023501 Jan. 15, 2006
• "Design and measurement of a multiple quantum well nipi wavguide modulator for optoelectronic integrated circuits" S.D. Koehler, E.M. Garmire, A.R. Kost, D. Yap, E.P. Docter, T.C. Hasenberg, IEEE J. Quantum Electron 32, 1029-1038 (1996).

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