ECE FACULTY

Christopher Davis

Title: Professor
Areas/Affiliations: ECE, Maryland Optics Group
E-mail: davis@umd.edu
Phone: (301)405-3637
Office: Kim Building 2124
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Website: http://www.enee.umd.edu/~davis/

Biography:

Christopher C. Davis is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received the B.A. degree (with Honors) in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1965, the M.A. degree from the University of Cambridge in 1970, and the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Manchester in 1970. From 1973-1975 he was a Instructor/Research Associate at Cornell University, and from 1982-83 was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He has been a recipient of the following Honors and Awards:   University of Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, 1989-90; Fellow of the Institute of Physics, 1989; AT&T/ASEE Award for Excellence in Engineering Education,1990; Fellow of the IEEE, 1993; Invention of the Year Award in Information Technology, University of Maryland, 2000. Professor Davis is the author of the widely used text "Lasers and Electro-Optics," published by Cambridge University Press, and co-author with Jack Moore and Mike Coplan of the best selling text "Building Scientific Apparatus," now in its third edition published by Westview Press.

He is also author or co-author of 11 chapters in books, over 140 refereed journal articles and over 220 conference papers, and is the holder of seven awarded and several pending patents. He is Conference co-Chair of the SPIE Free Space Laser Communications Conference, and is a frequent invited lecturer both nationally and internationally.

He has served as a scientific consultant to several US Government agencies and industry. He is a member of the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee SCC-34 SC2, which deals with RF exposure from wireless devices.

Research Interests:

Research areas include free space optical and directional RF communication systems, plasmonics, near-field scanning optical microscopy, chemical and biological sensors, interferometry, optical systems, bioelectromagnetics, and RF dosimetry.

Currently active research includes optical and RF directional wireless, the optical properties of nanostructures where surface plasmons can be excited, near-field scanning optical microscopy, laser interferometry, dielectrometry, fiber sensors and biosensors, magnetooptics, optical trace detection, atmospheric turbulence, optical communication systems and devices, and biophysics.

His past research has covered gas lasers, photon counting, chemical lasers, molecular relaxation processes, diode-pumped solid-state lasers, laser noise and instabilities, injection locking of broad area laser diodes, nonlinear imaging of ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials, and studies of the biological effects of non-ionizing radiation.

Spotlight on Research: Broadband Directional Wireless Communication Networks

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