Herbert Winful

birth:

place: born in London, raised in Cape Coast, Ghana

B.S. in Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1975); M.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (1977)

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (1981)

: At the University of Michigan CUOS Associate Director for Education; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Professor of Applied Physics

From 1980 to 1986 he was Principal Member of Technical Staff GTE Laboratories, Inc. in Waltham, Mass. From 1987 to 1992 he was Associate Profesor in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. Since 1992, Dr. Winful has been Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan.

AWARDS:

1. 2003 fellow of the American Physical Society
2. Honors and Awards: Amoco/University Faculty Teaching Award, 1993-1994
3. Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Professor Award, 1993-1994
4. Faculty Advisor of the Year, 1993-1994
5. Fellow, institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1994
6. Professor of the Year, EECS Department, 1993
7. State of Michigan Teaching Excellence Award, 1991
8. Professor of the Year, EECS Department, 1991
9. Teaching Excellence Award, College of Engineering, 1990
10. Fellow, Optical Society of America, 1990
11. Presidential Young Investigator, 1987
12. Member, The Electromagnetics Academy

email: winful@eecs.umich.edu
URL: Herbert Winful web page.

Research

Main Fields of Interest: Nonlinear optics, semiconductor laser physics, nonlinear dynamics for coupled lasers, nonlinear fiber optics, integrated optics .

Selected Articles

D. T. Walton, and H. G. Winful, Passive Mode Locking with an Active Nonlinear Directional Coupler: Positive Group-Velocity Dispersion, Opt. Lett., 18, 720-722 (May 1 1993).

S. Feng, H. G. Winful, and R. W. Hellwarth, Gouy Shift and Temporal Reshaping of Focused Single-cycle Electromagnetic Pulses, Opt. Lett., 23, 385 (1998).

S. Hunsche, S. Feng, A. Leitenstorfer, H. G. Winful, E. P. Ippen, and M. C. Nuss, Spatiotemporal Focusing of Single-cycle Light Pulses, submitted to Opt. Lett., (1998).

S. Feng, H. G. Winful, and R. W. Hellwarth, Spatiotemporal Evolution of Single-cycle Electromagnetic Pulses, submitted to Phys. Rev. E, (1998).

S. Feng, and H. G. Winful, Fields of Single-cycle Terahertz Pulses Generated by a Loop Antenna, in CLEO '98 Proceedings (May 1998).

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