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'''Donna T. Strickland''' is an optical ] and professor at the ] working in the fields of ultrafast ] and ]. Strickland, along with her Ph.D. supervisor Dr. ], co-invented ] (CPA), which made it possible to amplify ] to high peak power.<ref>D. Strickland and G. Mourou, “Compression of amplified chirped optical pulses”, Opt. Commun. 56, 219 (1985)</ref> |
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In 1981, Strickland received her B. Eng. in Physics from ] in ]. She earned her Ph.D. in Optics from the ] in 1989. After completing her Ph.D., she worked with the National Research Council of Canada as a research associate from 1989 to 1991. After a year in the laser division of ], she became a member of ]'s Advanced Technology Center for Photonics and optoelectronic materials in 1992. In 1997, Strickland joined the physics department of the ] as an assistant professor. In 2007, she was promoted to associate chair of the physics department.<ref name=Bio>The Optical Society Biography: https://www.osa.org/en-us/history/biographies/donna-t-strickland/</ref> Her ultrafast laser group "develops high-intensity laser systems for nonlinear optics investigations." <ref>https://uwaterloo.ca/physics-astronomy/people-profiles/donna-strickland</ref> |
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Strickland is a fellow of ] (OSA) and served as the OSA president in 2013. |
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==Awards and honors== |
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*2008 Fellow of the Optical Society of America |
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*2000 Cottrell Scholars Award from Research Corporation |
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*1999 Premier’s Research Excellence Award |
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*1998 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship |
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== References == |
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