Education
Silfvast received his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics form the University of Utah and spent much of his career at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey.
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And also a thriller novel "Focused to Kill, (2012). Later he became a professor and chairman of the Physics Department at the University of Central Florida"s Center for Research in Electro-Optics and Lasers (Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers). Silfvast remains a Professor Emeritus at UCF, and is now retired and living in northern California.
He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 2010 Silfvast was selected as one of 27 "Laser Luminaries" (laser pioneers) during the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the discovery of the laser.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. American Physical Society.
