Education History
- DOCTOR IN PHILOSOPHY OPTICAL SCIENCES, UIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Work Experience
Senior Professional Staff, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
Publications
Sample Publications:
1) W.E. Torruellas, Z. Wang, D.J. Hagan, E.W. VanStryland, G.I. Stegeman, L. Torner, C. Menyuk, OBSERVATION OF 2D SPATIAL SOLITARY WAVES IN A QUADRATIC MEDIUM", Phys.Rev.Lett., 74, 5036-5039, (1995).
2) W.E. Torruellas, Z. Wang, L. Torner, G.I. Stegeman, "OBSERVATION OF MUTUAL TRAPPING AND DRAGGING OF 2D SPATIAL SOLITARY WAVES IN A QUADRATIC NONLINEAR MEDIUM", Opt.Lett., 20, 1949-1951, (1995).
3) W.E. Torruellas, L. Torner, "A GAME OF BILLIARDS WITH SOLITARY WAVES IN KTP", Optics and Photonics News, 7, 34-37 and 52, March 1996.
4) W.E. Torruellas, D. Neher, R. Zanoni, G.I. Stegeman, F. Kajzar, M.Leclerc, "DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS OF THE THIRD ORDER NONLINEAR SUSCEPTIBILITY OF POLYTHIOPHENE THIN FILMS", Chem. Phys. Lett., 175, 11, (1990).
5) B. Lawrence, W.E. Torruellas, M. Cha, G. Stegeman, J. Meth, G.Baker, S. Etemad, "IDENTIFICATION AND ROLE OF TWO PHOTON STATES IN CONJUGATED POLYMER PARATOLUENE-SULFONATE", Phys. Rev. Lett.,73, 597 (1994).
6) W.E. Torruellas, B.L. Lawrence, G.I. Stegeman, G. Baker, "TWO-PHOTON SATURATION IN THE BANDGAP OF A MOLECULAR QUANTUM WIRE", Opt. Lett., 21, 1777-1779 (1996).
7) S. Marder, W.E. Torruellas, M. Blanchard-Desce, S. Gilmour, J.L. Bredas, V. Ricci, G.I. Stegeman,"LARGE MOLECULAR THIRD ORDER OPTICAL NONLINEARITY IN POLARIZED CAROTENOIDS", Science, 276, 1233-1236 (1997).
Honors and Awards
- NSF-EARLY CAREER AWARD
NATO post-doctoral Fellow
Eastman-Kodak graduate student fellow (1999)
Professional Organizations
OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
IEEE