Herbert Winful is a professor of electrical engineering, computer science, and physics at U-M. He earned a BS degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1975 and a PhD from the University of Southern California in 1981.
Winful’s many contributions to photonics and quantum electronics include pioneering work on nonlinear optical periodic structures, the nonlinear dynamics of coherently-coupled laser arrays, the physics of quantum tunneling time, polarization instabilities, and distributed-feedback fiber Raman lasers. He has published over 130 journal articles and supervised 18 PhD students. For ten years he ran an NDF Research Experiences of Undergraduates site at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS).
