Professor of Optics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
PhD, University of Rochester, 1996
Short Biography
Miguel A. Alonso received the degree of Engineer in Physics from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and the PhD degree in Optics from The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester. In 2003, he joined the faculty of The Institute of Optics. He has been Associate Editor and Deputy Editor for Optics Express, Chair of Spotlight on Optics, Associate Editor for Optica, and currently serves as Editor in Chief of Optics Letters. He is a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA, The Optical Society). He currently holds also an appointment at Ecole Centrale de Marseille and Institut Fresnel, in France.
Research Overview
Professor Alonso’s research is on mathematical aspects of wave propagation, in particular on the description and applications of beams with structured intensity and polarization distributions, optical coherence, and the connection between the ray and wave models of light.