Eric Van Stryland [SEP] educated at
Eric Van Stryland
Eric Van Stryland was president of the Optical Society of America in 2005.
Eric Van Stryland received the Physics PhD degree in 1976, from the University of Arizona, Optical Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, where he worked on optical coherent transients and photon counting statistics. He worked in the areas of femtosecond pulse production, multiphoton absorption in solids, and laser induced damage at the Center for Laser Studies at the University of Southern California. He joined the Physics Department at the University of North Texas in
in January, 1987. He was joined by North Texas State University colleagues Eric Van Stryland and David Hagan. Van Stryland and Hagan would later serve as Dean and Associate Dean, respectively.
Timeline:
- The Center is founded - 1986
- CREOL building construction starts - 1994
- CREOL building ready for move-in - early 1996
- School of Optics is established - 1999
- The Florida Photonics Center of Excellence is created - 2003
- The School of Optics becomes the College of Optics and