{"673556":{"#nid":"673556","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Physicist Rick Trebino Awarded Optica R.W. Wood Prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Physics Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/user\/rick-trebino\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERick Trebino\u003C\/a\u003E has received the 2024 R.W. Wood Prize in recognition of his invention and development of techniques for the complete and rigorous measurement of ultrashort laser pulses. The \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.optica.org\/get_involved\/awards_and_honors\/awards\/award_descriptions\/rwwood\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ER.W. Wood Prize\u003C\/a\u003E is presented by Optica, (formerly OSA), Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, in recognition of an outstanding discovery, scientific, or technical achievement or invention in the field of optics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201dI\u2019m ecstatic to receive this recognition from Optica,\u201d said Trebino, who serves as the Eminent Scholar Chair of Ultrafast Optical Physics in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E at Georgia Tech. \u201cThe vast majority of science\u2019s greatest discoveries have resulted directly from more powerful techniques for measuring light, so I decided to devote my career to this important field, and it\u2019s very satisfying to receive this honor for my work.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUltrashort pulses are brief bursts of light, millionths of billionths of a second long \u2014 the shortest technological events ever created. Trebino\u2019s techniques for measuring them have made possible a host of new research and technology applications in many areas, including the fundamental studies of matter and micro-material processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETrebino has pioneered ultrashort-pulse measurement techniques for over three decades. In 1991, he invented the frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG) technique, the first method for completely measuring arbitrary ultrashort light pulses in time. It took pulse measurement from blurry black-and-white artifact-ridden snapshots to high-resolution full-color images. The FROG technique remains the gold standard in ultrashort pulse measurement and is used worldwide in physics, chemistry, engineering, biomedical, and telecommunications applications.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMore recently, Trebino has developed devices for measuring pulses with ever shorter and ever more complex temporal \u2014 and also spatial \u2014 variations. Thanks in large part to Trebino\u2019s techniques, these exotic light pulses have become much better understood and hence much shorter, more stable, and much more useful. His devices have also played key roles in work resulting in several recent Nobel Prizes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERick Trebino received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University and joined Georgia Tech in 1998 after having worked at Sandia National Laboratories. He has received numerous other awards and is a Fellow of four international scientific societies, including Optica, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and SPIE: the international society for optics and photonics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about Trebino\u2019s Ultrafast Optics Research Group here: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/frog.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Efrog.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003EAbout Optica\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.optica.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EOptica\u003C\/a\u003E (formerly OSA), Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, is the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving, and dissemination of knowledge in the field. Founded in 1916, it is the leading organization for scientists, engineers, business professionals, students, and others interested in the science of light. Optica\u2019s renowned publications, meetings, online resources, and in-person activities fuel discoveries, shape real-life applications, and accelerate scientific, technical, and educational achievement.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESchool of Physics Professor Rick Trebino was honored for his invention and development of techniques for the complete and rigorous measurement of ultrashort laser pulses.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Physics professor honored for pioneering ultrashort-laser-pulse measurement techniques"}],"uid":"36583","created_gmt":"2024-03-15 18:21:35","changed_gmt":"2024-03-18 16:46:51","author":"lvidal7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-03-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673418":{"id":"673418","type":"image","title":"School of Physics Professor Rick Trebino","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Physics Professor Rick Trebino\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1710526616","gmt_created":"2024-03-15 18:16:56","changed":"1710526387","gmt_changed":"2024-03-15 18:13:07","alt":"Photo of Georgia Tech Physics Professor Rick Trebino","file":{"fid":"256814","name":"Physicist Rick Trebino Portrait.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/03\/15\/Physicist%20Rick%20Trebino%20Portrait.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/03\/15\/Physicist%20Rick%20Trebino%20Portrait.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2930149,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/03\/15\/Physicist%20Rick%20Trebino%20Portrait.jpg?itok=OBOPvShq"}},"673419":{"id":"673419","type":"image","title":"School of Physics Professor Rick Trebino","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Physics Professor Rick Trebino\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1710526617","gmt_created":"2024-03-15 18:16:57","changed":"1710526387","gmt_changed":"2024-03-15 18:13:07","alt":"Photo of Georgia Tech Physics Professor Rick Trebino standing in front of a classroom projector screen that shows the visible light spectrum. 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