Professor Ewan M.Wright
Professor Ewan M.Wright
COLLEGE OF OPTICAL SCIENCES
Professor at the College of Optical Sciences (weather), joint appointment with the Department of Physics, at the University of Arizona, Honorary Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St. Andrews; B. Sc., Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, 1980; Ph. D. Heriot-Watt University, 1983; Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Munich 1983-1985; College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1985-date.
Last updated: May 2013
Current classes
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Previous classes
Current Research Students
| Monica A. Gubbels | Masters (1988) | A theoretical study of nonlinear guided waves. |
| David R. Heatley | Ph. D (1990) | Dynamics of solitons in nonlinear optical waveguides. |
| Augusto Rodrigues | Ph. D (1996) | Nonlinear pulse propagation near a two-photon resonance. |
| Kirk Cook | Masters (1996) | Analysis of a model for optical breakdown in water using ultrashort pulses. |
| Keith Kasunic | Ph. D (1997) | Nonlinear dynamics of circular grating distributed feedback lasers. |
| Michal Mlejnek | Ph. D (1998) | Intense femtosecond pulse interaction with transparent and absorbing media. |
| Sierk Pötting | Masters (1998) | Gap solitons in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. |
| Joe Triscari | Ph. D (2000) | Application of Lie theory to optical resonators: the two dimensional master equation |
| John Perrault | Masters (2002) | Simulation of nonlinear optical measurements for the carrier-envelope phase of ultrashort pulses |
| Carl Maes | Ph. D (2003) | Transverse mode properties of resonators with a Gaussian gain |
| Thomas Niday | Ph. D (2004) | Stability and transient effects in ultraviolet filaments |
| Chris Anderson | Masters (2005) | Numerical study of Bessel beam propagation |
| Casey T. Streuber | Masters (2006) | Numerical study of the Dark Poisson spot |
| Dan Roskey | Ph. D (2007) | On the role of linear processes in the development and evolution of filaments in air |
| Klaus Metzger | Ph. D (2007) | Longitudinal optical binding (U. of St. Andrews) |
| Steve Lee | Ph. D (2009) | Optical trapping: optical interferometric metrology and nanophotonics (U. of St. Andrews) |
| Julia Werra | Masters (2011) | Obtaining the momentum distribution of an oblate Bose-Einstein condensate: A numerical analysis (co-advised with Brian Anderson) |
| John Mongelli | Masters (2012) | Temporal optical soliton dynamics in femtosecond enhancement cavities (co-advised with Jason Jones). |
| Secretariat | Susan Nares, Room 642 | Phone: (520) 621-1925 Fax: (520) 621-4358 |
| Address Information | College of
Optical Sciences The University of Arizona 1630 East University Boulevard Tucson, AZ 85721-0094 |
Phone: (520 ) 621-2406 Fax: (520) 621-4358 Email: ewan.wright@optics.arizona.edu |
Other AMO Related Work at the College of Optics
| Prof. H. M. Gibbs | Fundamental physics of semiconductor quantum-confined structures |
| Prof. R. Binder | Theoretical Investigations of optical properties of semiconductors |
| Prof. G. Khitrova | Fundamental physics of semiconductor quantum-confined structures |
| Prof. P. Jessen | Experimental AMO physics, laser cooling, optical lattices |
| Prof. P. Meystre | Theoretical AMO physics, BEC, nonlinear atom optics, |
| Prof. M. D. Girardeau | Many-body theory and Bose-Einstein condensation. |
| Prof. B. P. Anderson | Experimental Bose-Einstein condensation. |
| Prof. R. J. Jones | Ultrashort lasers, precision metrology |
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