Laser spectroscopy Non-linear optics Motional narrowing Photon upconversion Atomic line filter Second-harmonic generation BPP theory
Spouse
Huberta Deliana Brink
(m. 1950)
Awards
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1958)
Stuart Ballantine Medal (1961)
National Medal of Science (1974)
Lorentz Medal (1978)
Nobel Prize in Physics (1981)
IEEE Medal of Honor (1983)
Scientific career
Fields
Applied physics
Institutions
University of Arizona Harvard University
Doctoral advisor
Cornelis Jacobus Gorter
Other academic advisors
Edward Purcell
Doctoral students
Peter Pershan Yuen-Ron Shen Eli Yablonovitch
Nicolaas Bloembergen (March 11, 1920 – September 5, 2017) was a Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy.[1] During his career, he was a professor at Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona and at Leiden University in 1973 (as Lorentz Professor).
Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Arthur Schawlow and Kai Siegbahn because their work "has had a profound effect on our present knowledge of the constitution of matter" through the use of laser spectroscopy. In particular, Bloembergen was singled out because he "founded a new field of science we now call non-linear optics" by mixing "two or more beams of laser light... in order to produce laser light of a different wave length" and thus significantly broaden the laser spectroscopy frequency band.[2]
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