Arnold Schmidt#
| Membership Number: | 1839 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.oeaw.ac.at/m/schmidt-arnold |
Present and Previous Positions
- Now: Professor Emeritus at the Photonics Institute of the TU-Wien
- since 2001 Professor at the Institut für Photonik der TU-Wien, Austria
- 2000 - 2001 Chairman of the Photonics Institute of the TU Wien, Austria
- 1989 - 1993 Chairman of the Institut für allgemeine Elektrotechnik und Elektronik of the TU Wien, Austria
- 1986 Full Professor at the TU Wien, Austria
- 1979 Associate Professor and head of the Abteilung für Quantenelektronik und Lasertechnik at the TU Wien, Austria
- 1978 “Habilitation” in the field of Quantum Electronics
- 1975 Assistant Professor at the Institut für physikalische Elektronik TH Wien, Austria
- 1971 - 1975 Research Associate at the Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- 1966 - 1971 Research Fellow at the Department of Physics, University of York, UK
- 1962 - 1965 Research Assistant (with Prof. Dr. K.M. Koch); engaged in founding the Ludwig Boltzmann Society and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute für Festköperphysik, Vienna, Austria
Fields of Scholarship
- Nonlinear optics
- Femto- and atto-second technology
- Ultra short pulses
- Quantum electronics
- High power lasers
- Solid state lasers
Honours and Awards
- 1998 Member of the Academia Europea
- 1999 Member of the Austrian Academy of Science
- 1996 Fellow of the Optical Society of America
- 1998 Fellow of the American Physical Society
