Stephen Harris Named Honorary Member of OSA
WASHINGTON, October 23, 2013 — Stephen E. Harris, professor emeritus of electrical engineering and applied physics at Stanford University, has been elected as the newest honorary member of The Optical Society. Known for his work in lasers, quantum electronics, nonlinear optics and atomic physics, he joins a group of only 45 such members elected since the society was founded in 1916. Harris, who is also an OSA Fellow, was chosen for his "pioneering and profoundly influential contributions to the science of light, includin...