Education

B.A. in Physics from Harvard University 1977

M.S. in Applied Physics from Stanford University 1979

Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University 1983

Honors & Awards

2013: Fellow of the Society of Photo-Instrumentation Engineers

2010: Finalist in the Bertholdt Leibinger Prize competition for the most innovative optics invention

2010: Prism Award for the best optics invention of 2009 for the BOA pulse compressor

2009: Optical Society of America’s top optics developments of 2009 for measurements of superluminal Bessel pulses

2008: Awarded Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

2006: Fellow of the American Physical Society

2005: Circle of Excellence Award for the invention of a short-pulse GRENOUILLE

2003: R&D 100 Award for one of the top 100 technical inventions of the year for the invention of GRENOUILLE (A highly simplified ultrashort pulse measurement device)

2003: Best Optics Paper of the Year (Optical Society of America)

2000-2002 LEOS Distinguished Lecture

1999 Edgerton Prize of the SPIE

1995 Sandia National Laboratories Award for Exceptional Technical Accomplishments

1999 OSA Fellow

1997 Sandia National Laboratories Award for the Invention of Efficient, Exact Achromatic Phase-Matching

1996 Sandia National Laboratories Award for the Invention of Frequencey-Resolved Optical Gatting

1995 Sandia National Laboratories Award for Exceptional Technical Accomplishments

1995 Sandia National Laboratories Citation for Meritorious Achievement

1994 Sandia National Laboratories Award for Technical Excellence and Leadership

Research

The development of more powerful devices for manipulating and measuring potentially very complex light with ultrafast variations.

 Over 200 publications; see www.frog.gatech.edu/prose.html.

Books

 Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2002

Papers

1. ·  J. Cohen, P. Bowlan, V. Chauhan, and R. Trebino, "Measuring temporally complex ultrashort pulses using multiple-delay crossed-beam spectral interferometry," Opt. Expr., 18(7), 6583 (2010).
2. ·  P. Bowlan, H. Valtna-Lukner, M. Lõhmus, P. Piksarv, P. Saari, and R. Trebino, "Measurement of the spatio-temporal field of ultrashort Bessel-X pulses," Opt. Lett., 34(15), 2276, (2009).
3. ·  R. Trebino, P. Bowlan, P. Gabolde, X. Gu, S. Akturk, and M. Kimmel, "Simple devices for measuring complex pulses," Laser & Photon. Rev., 3, 314 (2009).
4. ·  M.A. Coughlan, M. Plewicki, S.M. Weber, P. Bowlan, R. Trebino, and R.J. Levis, "Specified electric-field construction from shaped pulses: The specific method," Opt. Expr., (2009).
5. ·  D. Lee, P. Gabolde, and R. Trebino. "Toward single-shot measurement of broadband ultrafast continuum." J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 25, A25 (2008).