Welcome to C. D. Cantrell's Home Page
I received my Bachelor's degree from Harvard and my Master's and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton. My first academic position was at Swarthmore. After receiving tenure there, I left for a position as a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. When Los Alamos' needs and my research interests started to diverge, I came to UT-Dallas.
Since 1964 I have been carrying out computational and theoretical research in various areas of photonics, beginning in the field of statistical properties of light, then in modern molecular spectroscopy, and continuing with quantum and nonlinear optics. Although I do not consider myself an experimentalist, I prefer to work closely with experimental groups.
I am licensed as a Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.
For the past thirty years, teaching has been an extremely important and satisfying part of my career. I divide my teaching effort approximately equally between individual instruction (such as working with Ph.D. students) and teaching courses.
My dual interests in computation and mathematics have led to a textbook, Modern Mathematical Methods in Physics and Engineering.
I encourage students to come talk with me in my office, ECSN 2.302.
My online course descriptions include current courses, as well as courses that I have taught, and may teach again, on quantum optics, mathematical methods and other topics.
I've worked in a wide variety of research areas. My current research topics, which are mostly computational, are listed below. A reasonably detailed research summary describes some of my research topics that are not listed here.
Other research topics on which I've worked include bifurcation and hysteresis effects in lasers, multiphoton molecular excitation and dissociation, infrared spectroscopy of SF6 and other polyatomic molecules, photoelectron counting statistics, intensity statistics of laser light, laser isotope separation, laser-light interactions with carriers in semiconductors, laser damage mechanisms in semiconductors, swept-beam-pumped lasers, and free-electron lasers. Detailed information is available in my list of patents and my list of publications.
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