Member of the Graduate Faculty | Chair, Optical Data Storage Center | Professor, Roshan Persian and Iranian Studies - GIDP | Professor, Optical Sciences
Masud Mansuripur PhD, 1981, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University) is Professor and Chair of Optical Data Storage at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is the author of Introduction to Information Theory Prentice-Hall, 1987) The Physical Principles of Magneto-Optical Recording Cambridge University Press, 1995) Classical Optics and its Applications Cambridge University Press, 2002, second edition 2009, Japanese translation 2006 and 2012) and Field, Force, Energy and Momentum in Classical Electrodynamics Bentham e-books, 2011, second edition 2017) A Fellow of OSA and SPIE, he is the author or co-author of more than 260 technical papers in the areas of optical data recording, magneto-optics, optical materials fabrication and characterization, thin film optics, diffraction theory, macromolecular data storage, and problems associated with radiation pressure and photon momentum.