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James Fujimoto

James Fujimoto

Electrical engineer and ophthalmologist

James G. Fujimoto is Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a visiting professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.

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He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1981 and 1984 respectively. He has been part of the MIT faculty since 1985 and is currently Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine. He contributed to the invention of optical coherence tomography.[1] In addition to his work on OCT he has also contributed to the development of femtosecond lasers.[2][3]

Professor Fujimoto was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001. He is also a fellow of the American Physical Society, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published over 400 journal articles.[citation needed]

Awards and honors

References

  1. [1]
    Huang D, Swanson EA, Lin CP, Schuman JS, Stinson WG, Chang W, Hee MR, Flotte T, Gregory K, Puliafito CA, Fujimoto JG (1991). "Optical Coherence Tomography". Science. 254 (5035): 1178–1181. Bibcode:1991Sci...254.1178H. doi:10.1126/science.1957169. PMC 4638169. PMID 1957169.
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    Pang, L. Y.; Kintzer, E. S.; Fujimoto, J. G. (1992-11-15). "Ultrashort-pulse generation from high-power diode arrays by using intracavity optical nonlinearities". Optics Letters. 17 (22). Optica: 1599–1601. Bibcode:1992OptL...17.1599P. doi:10.1364/ol.17.001599. ISSN 0146-9592. PMID 19798258.
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    Ell, R.; Morgner, U.; Kärtner, F. X.; Fujimoto, J. G.; Ippen, E. P.; Scheuer, V.; Angelow, G.; Tschudi, T.; Lederer, M. J.; Boiko, A.; Luther-Davies, B. (2001-06-01). "Generation of 5-fs pulses and octave-spanning spectra directly from a Ti:sapphire laser". Optics Letters. 26 (6). Optica: 373–375. Bibcode:2001OptL...26..373E. doi:10.1364/OL.26.000373. ISSN 0146-9592. PMID 18040328.
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    "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  5. [5]
    "2012 António Champalimaud Vision Award". Champalimaud Foundation. 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  6. [6]
    "BioMedical Optics Award - SPIE". spie.org. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  7. [7]
    Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award 2023
  8. [8]
    National Medal of Technology and Innovation 2023
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