Eric B. Szarmes
Associate Professor / Dept. Associate Chair
Ph. D.: Stanford University, 1992
Research Group: FEL
Office: WAT 212
Eric Szarmes
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Research Interest: 
Theory and Design of Novel Optical Resonators for Spectroscopy
High-Field Physics
Cavity Modulation Techniques for Optical Resonators
Specialty: 
Theory and Design of Specialized Optical Resonators and Optical Components for Frequency Combs
High Power Lasers and Applications

Career History:

  • Faculty member at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
    (1998 – present)
  • Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1992
  • B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1985

Professor Szarmes began his career in the field of free-electron lasers (FELs), and has made fundamental contributions to the theory of FEL mode locking, the generation and application of GHz-rate, phase-coherent optical pulse trains and frequency combs (the 'phase-locked FEL'), and picosecond optical pulse compression techniques using energy-swept electron bunches (the 'chirped-pulse FEL'). Present interests include the theory and design of novel optical resonators for spectroscopy and high-field physics, and cavity modulation techniques for optical resonators.

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