Professor S.C.
Wang received the B.S. degree from
National Taiwan University, Taiwan,
in 1957, the M.S. degree from
National Tohoku University, Sendai
Japan in 1965, and the Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1971, all in
Electrical Engineering.
He has an
extensive professional career both
in the academic and industrial
research institutions for over
thirty years. He was a faculty
member of Institute of Electronics
of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU),
Hsinchu, Taiwan from 1965-67 where
he established the first university
laser laboratory and fabricated the
first home-made He-Ne laser in
Taiwan. From 1967 to 1971 he
conducted the Ph.D thesis research
on frequency stabilization of rare
gas lasers at Stanford University
From 1971-74 he served as a Research
Associate with Professor A. E.
Siegman of Stanford University and
demonstrated the first white light
laser that simultaneously emits
three prime color in red, green and
blue from a single hollow cathode
laser. From 1974 to 1985, he was a
senior research scientist at Xerox
Corporation developing white light
laser and blue laser for color and
high speed imaging processing
applications, and investigation of
GaAs diode lasers for compact diode
laser printers, and has received
numerous awards from Xerox for his
technical accomplishments.
From 1985 to
1995, he joined Lockheed-Martin Palo
Alto Research Laboratories as Senior
Research Scientist and later
Consulting Scientist conducting
research on GaAs vertical cavity
surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) and
diode-pumped solid state lasers. He
developed the low threshold current
GaAs VCSEL and demonstrated first
monolithic integration of GaAs VCSEL
with MSFET. He also engaged in the
research on diode-pumped
self-frequency doubling blue and
green solid state lasers. Since 1995
he rejoined National Chiao Tung
University as a Visiting Professor
of Institute of Electro-Optical
Engineering. He served as the
Principal Investigator of two
National Projects on Photonics and
Nanotechnology and has made numerous
scientific accomplishments.
Professor Wang was elected a Fellow
of the Optical Society of America
for his pioneering development of
white light gas lasers and low
threshold surface emitting
semiconductor lasers in 1997. He was
awarded the Outstanding Scholar
Award from the Foundation for the
Advancement of Outstanding
Scholarship in 2000. He received
2003 Micro-Optics award for his
distinguished works and
contributions to develop and to
promote Microoptics technologies. He
has published over 200 technical
papers and has been awarded twenty
patents internationally on the laser
devices.
