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Adrian Korpel: A Life in Science
In his 90th-birthday year, five former students and a former postdoc pay tribute to a mentor, an Optica and IEEE Fellow and a significant figure at the interface of acoustics and optics.
Korpel (second from left) with Zenith colleagues Robert Adler, Peter Desmares, George Hrbel and William Watson, early 1960s. [Zenith press release / Courtesy of W. Watson]
In a seminal paper published 100 years ago, Léon Brillouin predicted inelastic light scattering by thermally excited sound waves. That paper, coupled with pioneering work by other contributors on light diffraction by ultrasonic waves, marked the dawn of the study of acousto-optic (AO) interactions, which has continued ever since.
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