The Institute of Optics - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

• Late Professor Leonard Mandel: Pioneer in the field of quantum optics, first demonstrated photon self interference, discovered the Mandel Formula.
• Late Professor Rudolf Kingslake: Pioneer in the field of lens design, founding faculty member.
• Late Professor Robert E. Hopkins: Pioneer in the field of optical engineering, former director and founder of Tropel Corporation.
• Professor Emil Wolf: Pioneer in the field of coherence theory and quantum optics, predicted the Wolf Effect.
• Professor Robert W. Boyd: Pioneer in the field of non-linear optics.
• Professor Joseph H. Eberly: Pioneer in the field of quantum optics and former President of the Optical Society of America.
• Professor Carlos Stroud: Pioneer in the field of quantum optics and Quantum Information.
• Professor James Zavislan: Director of the Center for Institute Ventures
• Professor Lukas Novotny: Pioneer in nano-optics.
• Professor Chunlei Guo: Pioneer in femtosecond laser processing of materials.
• Professor Thomas G. Brown: Director of the Robert E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering.
• Professor Wayne H. Knox: Current Director of the Institute of Optics, former Director of the Advanced Photonics Research Department at Bell Labs
• Adjunct Professor Ian Walmsley: Co-invented Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction (SPIDER) while at Rochester, current Chair of the University of Oxford Department of Physics.