KEREN BERGMAN, Assistant Professor
Room B312, Engineering Quadrangle

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• Fields of Research Activity: High-speed optical pulse sources, optical networks for massively parallel performance computing, applications of femtosecond to TDM and WDM, ultrafast switching, quantum noise in optical fibers, and biomedical optical tweezers.

• Employment:
1994-present: Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
Member, Princeton Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials
Member, Princeton Materials Institute
Consultant, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Sept. 1989-Aug. 1991: Research Assistant in the Femtosecond Optics and Quantum Electronics Group,
MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, MA Summers
• Education:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, June 1994.
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, February 1991.
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, June 1988. Summa Cum Laud.
• Honors and Awards:
CalTech PresidentÕs Award 1997
Howard B. Wentz Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship 1996
ONR Young Investigator 1996-1999
NSF CAREER Program Investigator 1995-1998
AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellowship, 1991-1994
General Electric Fellow, 1988-1989
Eastman Kodak Scholar 1985-1988
Bucknell University President's Award, 1988
• Scientific and Professional Activities:
IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Board of Governors (elected for 1996-1999 term).
LEOS Princeton Chapter, secretary and vice chairperson (1995-1998), president (1998-present).
IEEE Princeton University -- student chapter faculty advisor (1994-present).
Program Organizing Committee for Sarnoff Research Symposium.
Member, OSA, IEEE, Sigma Xi.
• Typical Publication:
• B. C. Collings, K. Bergman, and W. H. Knox, ÒStable multigigahertz pulse-train formation in a short-cavity passively harmonic mode-locked erbium/ytterbium fiber laser,Ó Optics Letters, 23, No. 2 (1998).
• B. C. Collings, K. Bergman, and W. H. Knox, ÒTrue fundamental solitons in a passively modelocked short cavity Cr+4:YAG laser,Ó Optics Letters 22, 1098 (1997).
• J. N. Kutz, K. Bergman, B.C. Collings, S. Tsuda, S. Cundiff, W. H. Knox, P. Holmes, and M. I. Weinstein ÒModeling pulse dynamics in a fiber laser with saturable Bragg reflector,Ó 14, 2681 Journal of the Optical Society of America B (1997).
• S. D. Koehler, L. Leng, J. N. Kutz, and K. Bergman, ÒUltrafast switching in highly birefringent fiber via soliton-soliton collisions,ÓOptics Communications, 141, 265 (1997).
• B. C. Collings, K. Bergman, S. T. Cundiff, S. Tsuda, J. N. Kutz, J. E. Cunningham, W. Y. Jan, M. Koch, and W. H. Knox, ÒShort cavity Erbium/Ytterbium fiber lasers modelocked with a saturable Bragg reflector,Ó IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 3, 1065 (1997).
• J. N. Kutz, S. D. Koehler, L. Leng, and K. Bergman, ÒAnalytic study of orthogonally polarized solitons interaction in highly birefringent optical fibers,Ó Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 14, 636 (1997).