Brian R. Washburn
Brian Washburn is originally from southeast Wisconsin near Racine. He received a Bachelor's of Science degree in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, summe cum laude. After this, Mr. Washburn worked at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) for a year under the Science and Engineering Research Semester sponsored by the US Department of Energy. At ANL he worked on c-axis transport in ceramic superconductors. After that, he was accepted to Emory University in Atlanta, to work on a Ph.D. in physics. At Emory, he performed ultrafast laser spectroscopy of III-V semiconductors (InGaAs, GaAs). In the summer of 1998, his entire lab moved across town to the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT). At GT, he is continuing his Ph.D. in physics while working for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Brian's research at GT still deals with ultrafast optical properties of semiconductors. Lately, he also has been working on the characterization of ultrashort pulse propagation through optical fiber using frequency-resolved optical gating. Also, his current work deals the characterization of pulses generated by semiconductor laser diodes; the effect of fiber dispersion and nonlinearities on pulse propagation; and the optical nonlinearities associated with supercontinuum generation in a microstructure optical fiber.
His resume is located here.
A list of his publications and presentations is located here.
More info on his exciting research can be found here.
Brian can be reached at gte093k@prism.gatech.edu
