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January 16, 2009                                                                                               

UNM Professor Appointed as Fellow in the American Physical Society

JainRavinder K. Jain, a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics Departments at UNM, has been appointed as a Fellow in the American Physical Society.  The honor, which is given only to a small portion of the society’s membership, is in recognition for Jain’s outstanding contributions to the field of physics.
The citation of the fellowship reads:

“For pioneering contributions in several areas of applied physics, including discovery of plasmon-mediated light-emission from tunnel junctions, seminal studies of nonlinear optics in semiconductors and optical fibers, and the invention of several important ultrashort pulse lasers and fiber lasers.”

In addition, Prof. Jain is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), Institute of Electical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE-LEOS), and the Society for Photo Instrumentation and Engineering (SPIE).

Jain received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and has been on the faculty at UNM since 1992.  He currently conducts research on nonlinear optics in semiconductor quantum dots and advanced optical fibers, and on nonlinear optical fiber devices and fiber lasers at the Center for High Technology Materials, areas in which he has generated several noteworthy publications and patents assigned to UNM.
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