Rick Trebino
Professor

Georgia Research Alliance-Eminent Scholar Chair of Ultrafast Optical Physics
Phone: (404)894-1690
Fax: (404)385-0830
Room: Howey -N011

EMail: rick.trebino [at] physics.gatech.edu
 

Current Class Web Site: PHYS 6567-Ultrafast Optics

■ Research ■

Prof. Trebino is developing techniques for generating and measuring ultrashort laser pulses, the shortest events ever created. He has developed Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG), the first technique for accurately measuring the intensity and phase vs. time of an arbitrary ultrashort laser pulse. His group is currently developing the world's simplest device for measuring such pulses, and they are developing techniques for measuring the most complex pulses ever created. In addition, he is developing novel devices for telecommunications, industry, remote sensing, and biotechnology. A particularly interesting new project is a novel type of polarimeter for astrobiological applications.

■ Publications ■

1. "Soliton-effect compression of supercontinuum to few-cycle durations in photonic nanowires," M.A. Foster, A.L. Gaeta, Q. Cao, and R. Trebino, Opt. Expr. 13(18), 6848-6855 (2005).
2. "The Measurement of Ultrashort Light - Simple Devices, Complex Pulses," X. Gu, S. Akturk, A. Shreenath, Q. Cao, and R. Trebino, Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy, ed. P. Hannaford, Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., (2005).
3. "Measuring Spatio-Temporal Pulse Distortions Using Grenouille," S. Akturk, X. Gu, M. Kimmel, Z. Wang, and R. Trebino, in Commercial and Biomedical Applications of Ultrafast Lasers VII, (2005).
4. "Self-Referenced Measurement of the Complete Electric Field of Ultrashort Pulses," P. Gabolde and R. Trebino, Opt. Expr., 12(19), 4423-29 (2004).
5. "Practical Issues in Ultra-Short-Pulse Measurements with ‘Grenouille", P. O’Shea, S. Akturk, M. Kimmel and R. Trebino, Appl. Phys. B 79(6), 683-91, (2004).
6. "Pulse-Front Tilt Caused by Spatial and Temporal Chirp", S. Akturk, X. Gu, E. Zeek, and R. Trebino, Opt. Expr., 12(19): p. 4399- 410 (2004).
7. "The Measurement of Ultrashort Light Pulses--Simple Devices, Complex Pulses, in Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy", X. Gu, S. Akturk, A.P. Shreenath, Q. Cao, and R. Trebino, P. Hannaford, Editor, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004).
8. "Spatial Chirp in Ultrafast Optics", X. Gu, S. Akturk, and R. Trebino, Opt. Comm., 242: p. 599-604 (2004).
9. "Measuring Ultrashort Pulses in the Single-Cycle Regime: Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating, in Few-Cycle Pulse Generation and Its Applications", R. Trebino, A. Baltuska, M. Pshenichnikov, and D.A. Wiersma, F. Kaertner, Editor., Springer-Verlag. (2004).
10. "Extremely Simple Device for Measuring 1.5-µM Ultrashort Laser Pulses, S. Akturk, M. Kimmel and R. Trebino, Opt. Expr., 12(19), 4483-89 (2004).
11. "Measuring of the Intensity and Phase of Attojoule Femtosecond Light Pulses Using Optical-Parametric-Amplification Cross-Correlation Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating", J. Zhang, A. P. Shreenath, M. Kimmel, E. Zeek, R. Trebino, and S. Link, Opt. Expr. 11(6), 601-609 (2003).
12. "Measuring the Pulse-Front Tilt in Ultrashort Pulses Using GRENOUILLE", S. Akturk, M. Kimmel, P. O’Shea, and R. Trebino, Opt. Expr. 11(5), 491-501 (2003).
13. "Beyond Error Bars: Understanding Uncertainty in Ultrashort-Pulse Measurements in the Presence of Ambiguity", Z. Wang, E.C. Zeek, R. Trebino, and P. Kvam, Opt. Expr., 11(26): p. 3518-27, (2003).
14. "Measuring Spatial Chirp in Ultrashort Pulses Using Single-Shot Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating", S. Akturk, M. Kimmel, P. O'Shea, and R. Trebino, Opt. Expr., 11(1): p. 68-78, (2003).
15. "Measuring Several-Cycle 1.5-mm Pulses Using Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating", S. Akturk, M. Kimmel, R. Trebino, S. Naumov, E. Sorokin, and I. Sorokina, Opt. Expr., 11(25): p. 3461-66, (2003).
16. "Measurement of the Intensity and Phase of Supercontinuum from an 8-Mm-Long Microstructure Fiber", Q. Cao, X. Gu, E. Zeek, M. Kimmel, R. Trebino, J. Dudley, and R.S. Windeler, Applied Physics B, 77: p. 239-44, (2003).
17. "Experimental Studies of the Coherence of Microstructure-Fiber Supercontinuum", X. Gu, M. Kimmel, A.P. Shreenath, R. Trebino, J. Dudley, S. Coen, and R.S. Windeler, Opt. Expr., 11(21): p. 2697-703, (2003).
18. "Relative-Phase Ambiguities in Measurements of Ultrashort Pulses with Well-Separated Multiple Frequency Components", D. Keusters, H.-S. Tan, P. O'Shea, E. Zeek, R. Trebino, and W.S.Warren, Journal of the Optical Society of America B (Optical Physics), 20(10): p. 2226-37, (2003).
19. "Electromagnetic Wave Analyzer", R. Trebino, Georgia Tech Research Corporation: USA, (2003).
20. "Cross-Correlation Frequency Resolved Optical Gating Analysis of Broadband Continuum Generation in Photonic Crystal Fiber: Simulations and Experiments", J. Dudley, X. Gu, X. Lin, M. Kimmel, E. Zeek, P. O'Shea, R. Trebino, S. Coen, and R.S. Windeler, Opt. Expr.,. 10(21): p. 1215-21 (2002).
21. "Increased Phase-Matching Bandwidth in Simple Ultrashort-Laser-Pulse Measurements", P. O'Shea, M. Kimmel, and R. Trebino, Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics, 4(1): p. 44-8 (2002).
22. "Simultaneous Automatic Calibration and Direction-of-Time-Ambiguity Removal In Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating", E. Zeek, A.P. Shreenath, M. Kimmel, and R. Trebino, Appl. Phys. B, 74: p. S265-71 (2002).
23. "Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating: The Measurement of Ultrashort Laser Pulses", R. Trebino, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston (2002).
24. "Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating and Single-Shot Spectral Measurements Reveal Fine Structure in Microstructure-Fiber Continuum", X. Gu, L. Xu, M. Kimmel, E. Zeek, P. O’Shea, A. P. Shreenath, R. Trebino, and R. W. Windeler, Opt. Lett. 27(13), 1174-6 (2002).
25. "Highly Simplified Ultrashort Pulse Measurement", P. O’Shea, M. Kimmel, X. Gu, and R. Trebino, Opt. Lett. 26, 932 (2001).
26. "Optical Pulse Propagation through Metallic Nano-Apertures," A. Dogariu, A. Nahata, R.A. Linke, L.J. Wang, and R. Trebino, Applied Physics B (Lasers and Optics), B74: p. S69-73, (2002).
27. "Measuring Ultrashort Laser Pulses Just Got a Lot Simpler," R. Trebino, P. O'Shea, M. Kimmel, and X. Gu, Optics & Photonics News, 12(6): p. 22-25, (2001).
28. "Highly Simplified Device for Ultrashort-Pulse Measurement," P. O'Shea, M. Kimmel, X. Gu, and R. Trebino, "Highly Simplified Device for Ultrashort-Pulse Measurement," Optics Letters, 26(12), 932-34, (2001).
29. "Ultrashort-Laser-Pulse Measurement Using Swept Beams," D. O'Shea, M. Kimmel, P. O'Shea, and R. Trebino, Optics Letters, 26(18) (2001).
30. "Increased Bandwidth in Ultrashort -Pulse Measurement Using an Angle-Dithered Nonlinear-Optical Crystal," P. O'Shea, X. Gu, M. Kimmel, and R. Trebino, Opt. Expr., 7(10), 342-49 (2000).
     

■ Awards ■

• 2006: Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 2005: Circle of Excellence Award for the invention of a short-pulse GRENOUILLE
• 2003: R&D 100 Award for one of the top 100 technical inventions of the year for the invention of GRENOUILLE
  (A highly simplified ultrashort pulse measurement device)
• 2003: Best Optics Paper of the Year (Optical Society of America)
• 2000-2002 LEOS Distinguished Lecturer
• 1999 Edgerton Prize of the SPIE
• 1995 Sandia National Laboratories Award for Exceptional Technical Accomplishments
• 1999 OSA Fellow
• 1997 Sandia National Laboratories Award for the Invention of Efficient, Exact Achromatic Phase-Matching
• 1996 Sandia National Laboratories Award for the Invention of Frequencey-Resolved Optical Gatting
• 1995 Sandia National Laboratories Award for Exceptional Technical Accomplishments
• 1995 Sandia National Laboratories Citation for Meritorious Achievement
• 1994 Sandia National Laboratories Award for Technical Excellence and Leadership

■ Bio Information ■

Rick Trebino was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 18, 1954. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1977 and his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 1983. His dissertation research involved the development of a technique for the measurement of ultrafast events in the frequency domain using long-pulse lasers by creating moving gratings. He continued this research during a three-year term as a physical sciences research associate at Stanford.

In 1986, he moved to Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, where he studied higher-order wave-mixing, nonlinear-optical perturbation theory using Feynman diagrams, and ultrashort-laser-pulse techniques with application to chemical dynamics measurements and combustion diagnostics. His latest work has been the development of the Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating (FROG) and related techniques for the measurement of the intensity and phase of ultrashort laser pulses.

In 1998, he became the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Chair of Ultrafast Optical Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he develops ultrafast technology with applications to telecommunications and biotechnology.

His interests include travel, photography, archaeology, and primitive art.

■ Group Sites ■

• FROG