NLOsource is maintained by Mark
G. Kuzyk.
I seem to be continually explaining nonlinear optics to
students and to the public. I have found no good single source with
simple explanations, nor is there a good repository of resources. I am
therefore publishing this site with basic tutorials as well as more
sophisticated discussions for experts.
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Photo: Mark G. Kuzyk, on the Spirit of
Darwin, Darwin Australia, August 2006.
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I am a professor in the Department of Physics and
Astronomy at Washington
State University in Pullman, Washington. I am also a professor in
the Materials Science Program. My research specialty is in organic
nonlinear optics with an interest in smart materials, novel optical
phenomena in polymers, and the theory of the nonlinear-optical
response. (My CV in pdf format)
I got my Ph.D. in 1985 at the University of
Pennsylvania, and worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1985 to
1990. I have been at Washington State University since 1990, where I
have served as Chair of the Materials Science Program; and, Associate
Chair and Graduate Chair of the Physics Department.
In 2005, I was selected to deliver the Distinguished
Faculty Address at WSU, which I gave two days after surgery to insert a
titanium plate in my wrist, which I broke playing ice hockey. In 2018, I was awarded the Eminent Faculty Award, the highest honor bestowed on a WSU faculty member. Check out the link to the video here.
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Some of the tutorials are based on a series of lectures
I presented in a summer school on Porquerolles Island, Hyères (France),
while other materials are those that I have developed for classroom
lectures or are byproducts of my research.
I am also including links to useful web sites as well as
other resources such as software and utilities that I have developed in
the process of doing research. In addition, I plan to include
tabulations of useful nonlinear-optical material properties as well as
news items that relate to nonlinear optics.
Comments, suggestions, and links to interesting sites
are always welcome. So, please send me any items that would you believe
would be of interest to users of NLOsource, and I will try to post as
many of them as possible.
Since I am busy with lots of things, this web site may
not be updated as often as I would like. I apologize in advance for
those of you who are eager for more content.
To contact NLOsource, please send email to: mgkuzyk@gmail.com.
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