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Emeritus Professor of Optics
Email
Worksilfvast@creol.ucf.edu
Phone
Office407-823-6855
Locations
OfficeCREOL A115
Biography
William Silfvast received his PhD in Physics form the University of Utah and is currently Emeritus Professor of Optics at UCF. His current interests involve developing efficient short-wavelength sources and their use in new applications, such as soft-X-ray projection lithography and microscopy, and in photoionization spectroscopy. Dr. Silfvast is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the IEEE. He has written a book entitled "Laser Fundamentals" published by Cambridge University Press.
Links
Laser Fundamentals Book
Awards & Honors
2000 Distinguished Researcher of the Year at UCF     
2000 Emertus Professor of Optics     
1999 NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford University 1999-2003     
1983 Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Labs     
1982 Guggenheim Fellowship at Stanford University 1966-67     
1980 Fellow of IEEE     
1980 Fellow of Optical Society of America     
1980 Fellow of the American Physical Society     
Research
EUV Lithography and Microscopy
X-Ray Science and Technology
X-ray Theory - X-ray Lasers