Leon McCaughan Professor Contact Information Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Courses Taught Selected Awards, Honors, Societies For additional information, see my

Contact Information

4623 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/262-0311 Fax: E-mail: mccaughan@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Materials Science Program

Education and Professional History

• Faculty member, 1985-present, UW Electrical & Computer Engineering
• Member of Staff, 1980-84 AT&T Bell Laboratories
• PhD, University of Michigan

Fields of Interest

• Nonlinear optics materials and devices
• Guided wave photonic devices and circuits
• Applications of quantum optics
• Far-infrared (terahertz) generation and spectroscopy
• Clinical applications of guided wave photonics
• Fiber optic mesh networks

Courses Taught

• ECE 230: Circuit Analysis
• ECE 313: Fiber Optics & Optoelectronics Laboratory
• ECE 314: Laser Laboratory
• ECE 320: Electrodynamics II
• ECE 335: Microelectronic Devices
• ECE 434: Fundamentals of Photonics
• ECE 466: Electronics of Solids
• ECE 535: Photonic Communications and Sensing Systems
• ECE 536: Integrated Optics and Optoelectronics
• ECE 546: Lasers
• ECE 746 Quantum Electronics
• ECE 913: Special Topics: Integrated Optics; Nonlinear Optics

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

• Topical Editor, Optics Letters
• Fellow, Optical Society of America
• Young Faculty Award, AT&T Foundation
• First optoelectronic fiber-optic switch array (one of "top 100" inventions by Science Digest
• Newport Research Corporation Award
• Non-tenured Faculty Award, 3M Company
• GTE Faculty Grant

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