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Wise, Frank William
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- condensed matter physics and materials science
- nanoscience and nanobiotechnology
- optical physics, quantum electronics, and photonics
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Affiliations
member of graduate field
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Research
principal investigator on
- CHARGE TRANSFER ACROSS THE BOUNDARY OF PHOTON-HARVESTING NANOCRYSTALS awarded by DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 2011 - 2013
- DISSIPATIVE SOLITON FIBER LASERS awarded by DIRECTORATE FOR ENGINEERING NSF 2009 - 2013
- ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, IMPACT IONIZATION AND MULTIPLE EXCITON GENERATION IN PBSE/PBS CORE-SHELL AND PBSE/PBSEL-XSX CORE-ALLOY-SHELL NANOCRYSTAL QUANTUM DOTS awarded by UNITED STATES-ISRAEL BINATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2007 - 2011
- FEMTOSECOND FIBER LASERS FOR INTEGRATION INTO TERAHERTZ SYSTEMS awarded by ZOMEGA TERAHERTZ CORPORATION 2009 - 2011
- FIBER LASERS FOR COHERENT RAMAN MICROSCOPY awarded by DIRECTORATE FOR ENGINEERING NSF 2010 - 2013
- MANAGED OPTICAL SPATIOTEMORAL SOLITONS awarded by NATL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 2007 - 2012
- ULTRAFAST FIBER LASERS FOR BIOIMAGING DEEP IN TISSUE awarded by NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING & BIOENGINEERING NIH 2010 - 2013
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Publications
individual publications
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academic article
- Generation of 110 W infrared and 65 W green power from a 1.3-GHz sub-picosecond fiber amplifier. Optics Express. 20:4850-4855. 2012
- A generic method for rational scalable synthesis of monodisperse metal sulfide nanocrystals. Nano Letters. 12. 2012
- Bright Infrared Quantum-dot Light-emitting Diodes Through Inter-dot Spacing Control. Nature Nanotechnology. 7. 2012
- Bright infrared quantum-dot light-emitting diodes through inter-dot spacing control. Nature Nanotechnology. 7. 2012
- Exciton relaxation in PbSe nanorods. ACS Nano. 6. 2012
- Femtosecond fiber lasers based on dissipative processes for nonlinear microscopy. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electron. 18:1412-1421. 2012
- Fiber four-wave-mixing source for coherent anti-Stokes Raman microscopy. Optics Letters. 37:1652-1654. 2012
- Generation of 110 W infrared and 65 W green power from a 1.3-GHz sub-picosecond fiber amplifier. Optics Express. 20:4850-4855. 2012
- Generation of megawatt power picosecond pulses from a divided-pulse fiber amplifier. Optics Letters. 37:253-255. 2012
- High-energy passive mode-locking of fiber lasers. International Journal of Optics. 2012
- Multimodal microscopy with sub-30-fs Yb fiber laser oscillator. Biomedical Optics Express. 3. 2012
- Pulse generation without gain-bandwidth limitation in a laser with self-similar evolution. Optics Express. 20:14213-14220. 2012
- Pulse shaping and evolution in normal- dispersion mode-locked fiber lasers. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electron. 18:389-398. 2012
- Ultrafast and octave-spanning optical nonlinearities from strongly phase-mismatched cascaded interactions. Physical Review Letters. 109. 2012
- Amplifier similaritons in a dispersion- mapped fiber laser. Optics Express. 19:22496-22501. 2011
- Assembly and Attachment of Nanoparticles through Surfactant Ligand Removal, Maintaining Quantum Confinement. Nano Letters. 11:5356. 2011
- Control of electron transfer from lead-salt nanocrystals to TiO2. Nano Letters. 11:2126-2132. 2011
- Energy scaling of mode-locked fiber lasers with chirally-coupled core fiber. Optics Express. 19:3464-3470. 2011
- Energy-level-related response of cathodic electrogenerated chemiluminesence of self-assembled CdSe/ZnS quantum dot films. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115:18822-18828. 2011
- Far infrared absorption of PbSe nanorods. Nano Letters. 11:2786-2790. 2011
- Generation of 42-fs and 10-nJ pulses from a fiber laser with self-similar evolution in the gain segment. Optics Express. 19:12074-23080. 2011
- In vivo imaging of myelin in the vertebrate central nervous system using third harmonic generation microscopy. Biophysical Journal. 100:1362-1371. 2011
- Multiphoton microscopy system with compact fiber-based femtosecond-pulse laser and handheld probe. Journal of Biophotonics. 4:34-39. 2011
- Optical Cherenkov radiation by cascaded nonlinear interaction: an efficient source of few-cycle energetic near- to mid-IR pulses,. Optics Express. 19:22557-22562. 2011
- Scaling fiber lasers to large mode area: an investigation of passive mode-locking using a multi-mode fiber. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. 47:597-606. 2011
- Surfactant ligand removal and rational fabrication of inorganically connected quantum dots. Nano Letters. 11:5356-5361. 2011
- Three-dimensional laser pulse intensity diagnostic for photoinjectors. Physical Review Special Topics-Accelerators and Beams. 14:112802. 2011
- Airy-Bessel wave packets as versatile linear light bullets. Nature Photonics. 4:103-106. 2010
- Area theorem and energy quantization for dissipative optical solitons. Optics Communications. 27:1978. 2010
- Density of states in a single PbSe/PbS core-shell quantum dot measured by scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Physical Review B. 81:245301. 2010
- Electronic states and optical properties of PbSe nanorods and nanowires. Physical Review B. 82:195313. 2010
- Exploitation of stimulated Raman scattering in short-pulse fiber amplifiers. Optics Letters. 35:2397. 2010
- Lead-Salt Quantum-Dot Ionic Liquids. Small. 6. 2010
- Lead-Salt Quantum-Dot Ionic Liquids. Small. 2010
- Lead-salt quantum dot ionic liquids. Small. 6:638. 2010
- Photogenerated Exciton Dissociation in Highly Coupled Lead Salt Nanocrystal Assemblies. Nano Letters. 10:1805-1811. 2010
- Role of Solvent Dielectric Properties on Charge Transfer from PbS nanocrystals to Molecules. Nano Letters. 10:318-323. 2010
- Scaling of dissipative soliton fiber lasers to megawatt peak powers by use of large-area photonic-crystal fiber. Optics Letters. 35:1569. 2010
- Self-similar pulse evolution in all-normal-dispersion laser. Physics Review A. 82. 2010
- Starting dynamics of dissipative-soliton fiber laser. Optics Letters. 35:2403. 2010
- Synthesiss of Monodisperse PbSe Nanorods: A Case of Oriented Attachment. Journal for the American Chem Society. 132:3909-3913. 2010
- Type-I cascaded quadratic soliton sompression in lithium niobate: compressing femtosecond pulses from high-power fiber lasers. Physical Review A. 81:053815. 2010
- Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence from PbS Quantum Dots. Nano Letters. 9:789-793. 2009
- High-power picosecond fiber source for coherent raman microscopy.. Optics Letters. 34:2051-2053. 2009
- Soliton thulium-doped fiber laser with carbon nanotube saturable absorber.. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 21:128-130. 2009
- Sub-100 fs pulses at watt-level powers from a dissipative-soliton fiber laser. . Optics Letters. 34:593-595. 2009
- Efficient temporal shaping of electron distributions for high-brightness photoemission electron guns. Physical Review Special Topics-Accelerators and Beams. 11. 2008
- All-fiber normal-dispersion femtosecond laser.. Optics Express. 16:11453-11458. 2008
- Analytic theory of self-similar mode-locking.. Optics Letters. 33:911-913. 2008
- Dissipative solitions in normal-dispersion fiber lasers. Physical Review A. 77:023814. 2008
- Electron injection from colloidal PbS quantum dots into titanium dioxide nanoparticles. Acs Nano. 2:2206-2212. 2008
- Environmentally stable all-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser.. Optics Letters. 33:1071-1073. 2008
- Giant-chirp oscillators for short-pulse fiber amplifiers. Optics Letters. 33:3025-3027. 2008
- High-energy femtosecond fiber lasers based on pulse propagation at normal dispersion. Laser & Photonics Reviews. 2:58-73. 2008
- Limits to compression with cascaded quadratic solition compressors. Opt. Express. 16:3273. 2008
- Observation of antisymmetirc dispersion-managed solitions in a mode-locked laser.. Optics Letters. 33:1717-1719. 2008
- Properties of normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber lasers. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 25:140. 2008
- Route to the minimum pulse duration in normal-dispersion fiber lasers.. Optics Letters. 33:2638-2640. 2008
- Spectral filtering for high-energy mode-locking in normal dispersion fiber lasers. Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics. 25:1763-1770. 2008
- Spectral filtering for mode locking in the normal dispersive regime.. Optics Letters. 33:941-943. 2008
- All-normal-dispersion femtosecond fiber laser with pulse energy above 20 nJ. Optics Letters. 32:2408. 2007
- Chirped-pulse amplification of femtosecond pulses near the gain-narrowing limit of Yb-doped fiber using a reflection grism compressor. Applied Physics B. 88:515. 2007
- Demonstration of soliton self-frequency shift below 1300 nm in higher-order mode, solid silica-based fiber. Optics Letters. 32:340-342. 2007
- Efficient temporal shaping of ultrashort pulses with birefringent crystals. Applied Optics. 46:8488. 2007
- Near-infrared fluorescence imaging with water-soluble lead salt quantum dots. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 111:5726-5730. 2007
- Nonlocal explanation of stationary and nonstationary regimes in cascaded solition pulse compression. Optics Letters. 32:2490. 2007
- Scaling of femtosecond Yb-doped fiber amplifiers to tens of microjoules energy via nonlinear chirped-pulse amplification. Optics Letters. 24:1803. 2007
- Solition compression to ultra-short pulses using cascaded quadratic nonlinearities in silica photonic crystal fibers. Proc. SPIE. 6588. 2007
- Spectral filtering for high-energy mode-locking in normal dispersion lasers. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 25:1763. 2007
- Stabilization of high-energy femtosecond ytterbium fiber lasers by use of a frequency filter. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 24:1803. 2007
- Theoretical optimization of nonlinear chirped-pulse amplifiers. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 24:1815. 2007
- Self-similar evolution of parabolic pulses in a laser. Physical Review Letters. 92:213902. 2004
- Water-soluble quantum dots for multiphoton fluorescence imaging in vivo. Science. 300:1434-1436. 2003
- Water-soluble quantum dots for multiphoton fluorescence imaging in vivo. Science. 300:1434. 2003
- Development of a Laser-Induced Cell Lysis System. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 374. 2002
- High-performance MSM photodetectors using Cu Schottky contacts. Ieee Photonics Technology Letters. 9:657-659. 1997
- Picosecond acoustic measurements of longitudinal wave velocity of submicron polymer films. Applied Physics Letters. 69:1692-1694. 1996
- Picosecond acoustics for the characterization of sub-micron polymeric films. Ultrasonics. 34:513-515. 1996
- Measurements of the tensor properties of third-order nonlinearities in wide-gap semiconductors. Optics Letters. 20:1110-1112. 1995
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chapter
- Dissipative Soliton Fiber Lasers. Advances in Fiber Lasers. 2012
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conference paper
- Third harmonic generation as a novel technique for imaging myelin in the central nervous system. Technical Digest: OSA Biomedical Optics Meeting. 2010
Teaching
teaching activities
- AEP-4400: Quantum and Nonlinear Optics - Spring 2013
- AEP-8150: Graduate Thesis - Spring 2013
- AEP-1200: Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanoengineering - Fall 2012
- AEP-8150: Graduate Thesis - Fall 2012
- ENGRI-1200: Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanoengineering - Fall 2012
- AEP-8150: Graduate Thesis - Spring 2012
- AEP-8150: Graduate Thesis - Fall 2011
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Background
education and training
- Ph.D. in Applied Physics, Cornell University 1988
- M.S. in Applied Physics, Cornell University 1986
- M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 1982
- B.S. in Engineering Physics, Princeton University 1980
awards and honors
- Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award (1992, 1995, 1998, 2001), 2005
- Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award, 2001
- Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award, 1998
- Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award, 1995
- Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award, 1992
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1989
- Newport Research Award, 1986
- Tau Beta Pi Award, 1984
- Visiting Professor for Senior International Scientist
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