Kenneth D. Singer Department of Physics Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7079 Tel: (216) 368-4017 Fax: (216) 368-4671 e-mail: kds4@po.cwru.edu

Professor of Physics and Macromolecular Science
Associate Chair, Department of Physics

Ken Singer received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at Pennsylvania, he became a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories in Princeton, eventually being appointed Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. He moved to the faculty of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University in 1990 as the Warren E. Rupp Associate Professor of Physics.

Singer has numerous publications and holds two patents. He is a founder and chairman of the Advisory Committee for Joint Activities of the Optical Society of America and the American Chemical Society and is active in organizing conferences for the Optical Society of America. He is on the editorial board of Nonlinear Optics, Molecular Engineering Review, and Photonic News, and is project co-director for the Optical Switching and Storage Project in ALCOM. His main research interests are in nonlinear optical materials and devices.

Singer's home page may be found at http://erebus.phys.cwru.edu/~ksinger/singer.html

Current research areas and ALCOM projects

• Optical Switching and Storage
• New Materials and Effects
• Nonlinear optics of liquid crystals and polymers

Representative Publications

• Fuming Li, Kye-Hyun Kim, Joe J. Kulig, Edward P. Savitski, William J. Brittain, Frank W. Harris, Stephen Z.D. Cheng, Steven Hubbard, and Kenneth D. Singer, "A High Temperature Aromatic Polyimide Film Having Nonlinear Optical Second Harmonic Generation Based on the Approach of the Poled Guest-Host System", J. Mat. Chem. 5, 253 (1995).
• S.F. Hubbard, K.D. Singer, F. Li, S.Z.D. Cheng, and F.W. Harris, "Nonlinear Optical Studies of a Fluorinated Poled Polyimide Guest-Host System", Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 265 (1994).
• S. Ou, L. Zhou, K.D. Singer, V. Percec, J. Lando and J.A. Mann, "Polar Polymeric Langmuir-Blodgett Films Containing Nitrobiphenyl Groups", Macromolecules 26, 7263 (1993).
• J.H. Andrews, J.D.V. Khaydarov, K.D. Singer, D.L. Hull, K.C. Chuang, "Characterization of Excited States of Centrosymmetric and Noncentrosymmetric Squaraines by Third Harmonic Spectral Dispersion", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12, 2360 (1995).
• T.C. Kowalczyk, K.D. Singer, and P.A. Cahill, "Anomalous Dispersion Phase-Matched Second Harmonic Generation in a Polymer Waveguide", Opt. Lett. 20, 2273 (1995).
• T.C. Kowalczyk, T.Z. Kosc, K.D. Singer, A.J. Beuhler, D.A. Wargowski, P.A. Cahill, C.H. Seager, and M.B. Meinhardt, "Crosslinked Polyimide Electro-optic Materials", J. Appl. Phys. 78, 5876 (1995).