Professor Anthony E. Siegman
McMurtry Professor of Engineering Emeritus
Stanford University, Stanford, California

Office:   (650) 326-4360   *   Cellular:   (650) 269-1229   *   siegman@stanford.edu

This page provides links to my current research and consulting activities at Stanford University and elsewhere, and to archival material on my Stanford University web site; it was last updated (partially) in November 2006.

Potential applicants to Stanford, please note: I have been retired from my faculty position since the end of 1998 and no longer supervise or have job opportunities for any students or postdocs.

What's New

---A CLEO plenary talk on "Masers and lasers: Looking back 50 years"
---A Christmas Lecture on "Light brings us news of the universe"
---A journal article on modes in gain-guided optical fibers
---A seminar on "Optics with gain"
---New results on snowmelt solitons

Personal Data

How to contact me; various biographies and a CV; and summaries of technical and legal consulting experience.

Current Research

Information on my current research interests, including evanescent gain ("Does it exist?"), Fresnel reflection from gainy interfaces ("Can you have greater than unity TIR?"), and others.

Publications

Reference lists and selected current and recent publications, including an Errata list for my LASERS text.

Miscellaneous Files and Links

A few useful software routines, including a Fast Hankel Transform (FHT) routine in FORTRAN and C; information on the PARAXIA package for the Macintosh and Windows; and a modified Mathematica SimpleFit[] routine. Also, a map of Carnelian Woods at Lake Tahoe; a memorial to one of the dogs we've known and loved; and a guide to Tahoe backcountry ski touring routes.