CURRICULUM VITAE

Professor Douglas S. Hamilton
Department of Physics
2152 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3046
tel: (860) 486-4914 (office)    (860) 486-3856 (lab)
fax: (860) 486-3346
email: douglas.hamilton@uconn.edu

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1976.
B.A. in Physics, University of Colorado, 1971.

EMPLOYMENT
University of Connecticut; Storrs, Connecticut.
    Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, 2006 - present
    Professor, Department of Physics, 1990 - present.
    Associate Professor, Department of Physics, 1984 - 1990.
    Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, 1979 - 1984.
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
    Research Associate, Physics and Electrical Engineering, 1977 - 1979.

HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
University of Connecticut Summer Fellow.
Fellow, University of Connecticut Teaching Institute.
Chair, 1993 International Conference on Luminescence.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Laser Physics, Quantum Electronics, Optical Properties of Ions in Solids, Non-linear Optics and Solid State Physics.

TEACHING SPECIALTIES
Physics for the Non-Scientist, Laser Physics, Solid State Physics, Laboratory Physics.

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS  (Copyrights to the following articles belong to the respective journals. These articles may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the publishers.)

"Utilization of Synchrotron Radiation for the Measurement of Fast Fluorescence Lifetimes of Ions in Solids" W.S. Heaps, D.S. Hamilton and W.M. Yen, Optics Comm. 9, 304 (1973).

"Time Resolved Fluorescence Line Narrowing Studies on Pr³⁺ in LaF₃" R. Flach, D.S. Hamilton, P.M. Selzer and W.M. Yen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 35, 1034 (1975).

"Phonon Assisted Energy Migration in Pr³⁺:LaF₃" P.M. Selzer, D.S. Hamilton, R. Flach and W.M. Yen, J. Lumin. 12/13, 737 (1976).

"Anomalous Linewidth Behavior in Eu³⁺ Doped Silicate Glass" P.M. Selzer, D.L. Huber, D.S. Hamilton, W.M. Yen and M.J. Weber, Phys. Rev. Lett. 36, 813 (1976).

"Fluorescence Linewidths and Energy Transfer in LaF₃(Pr³⁺, Nd³⁺)" D.S. Hamilton, P.M. Selzer, D.L. Huber and W.M. Yen, Phys. Rev. B 14, 2183 (1976).

"Laser Induced Fluorescence Line-Narrowing Studies of Impurity Ion Systems; LaF₃:Pr³⁺" R. Flach, D.S. Hamilton, P.M. Selzer and W.M. Yen, Phys. Rev. B 15, 1248 (1977).

"Nonradiative Spectral and Spatial Energy Transfer in Ruby" P.M. Selzer, D.S. Hamilton and W.M. Yen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 38, 858 (1977).

"Spectral Energy Transfer in PrF₃ and PrCl₃" D.S. Hamilton, P.M. Selzer and W.M. Yen, Phys. Rev. B 16, 1858 (1977).

"Time-dependent Effects in Fluorescent Line Narrowing" D.L. Huber, D.S. Hamilton and B. Barnett, Phys. Rev. B 16, 4642 (1977).

"Brillouin Scattering and Phonon Damping in Optical Glasses" D. Heiman, D.S. Hamilton and R.W. Hellwarth, Phys. Rev. B 19, 6583 (1979).

"Spatial Diffusion Measurements in Impurity Doped Solids by Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing" D.S. Hamilton, D. Heiman, J. Feinberg and R.W. Hellwarth, Opt. Lett. 4, 124 (1979).

"Raman Scattering and Nonlinear Refractive Index Measurements of Optical Glasses" D. Heiman, R.W. Hellwarth and D.S. Hamilton, J. Non-Cryst. Solids. 34,63 (1979).

"Two-Photon Excitation of the Lowest 4f-5d Near Ultraviolet Transition in Ce³⁺:CaF₂" S.K. Gayen and D.S. Hamilton, Phys. Rev. B 28, 3706 (1983).

"Temporal Analysis of Short Laser Pulses using Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing" J. Jansky, G. Corradi and D.S. Hamilton, Appl. Opt. 23, 8 (1984).

"Laser Induced Defect Centers in Ce³⁺:CaF₂" G.J. Pogatshnik, S.K. Gayen and D.S. Hamilton, J. Lumin. 31/32, 251 (1984).

"Two-photon Excitations of Higher 5d States in Ce³⁺:CaF₂" S.K. Gayen, G.J. Pogatshnik and D.S. Hamilton, J. Lumin. 31/32, 260 (1984).

"Optical Absorption of Chromium-Doped Paratellurite" I. Foldvari, R. Voszka, L.A. Kappers, D.S. Hamilton and R.H. Bartram, Phys. Lett. 109A, 303 (1985).

"Analysis of the Lowest 4f-5d Two-photon Transition in Ce³⁺:CaF₂" S.K. Gayen, D.S. Hamilton and R.H. Bartram, Phys. Rev. B 34, 7517 (1986).

"Excited State Photoionization of Ce³⁺ ions in Ce³⁺:CaF₂" G.J. Pogatshnik and D.S. Hamilton, Phys. Rev. B 36, 8251 (1987).

"Rate Equation Description of Multi-photon Creation of Color Centers and Simultaneous One-photon Annihilation" G.J. Pogatshnik and D.S. Hamilton, J. Lumin, 38, 201 (1987).

"UV-Induced Loss Mechanisms in a Ce³⁺:LiYF₄ Laser" Ki-Soo Lim and D.S. Hamilton, J. Lumin. 40&41, 319 (1988).

"Optical Absorption and Photoionization Measurements from the Excited States of Ce³⁺:Y₃Al₅O₁₂" D.S. Hamilton, S.K. Gayen, G.J. Pogatshnik, R.D. Ghen and W.J. Miniscalco, Phys. Rev. B 39, 8807 (1989).

"Optical Gain and Loss Studies in Ce³⁺:YLiF₄" Ki-Soo Lim and D.S. Hamilton, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 1401 (1989).

"The Luminescence of Molybdenum in ZnWO₄ Single Crystals" L.A. Kappers, I. Foldvari, O.R. Gilliam, D.S. Hamilton, Li-Ji Lyu, I. Cravero, and F. Schmidt, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 51, 953 (1990).

"Radiative and Nonradiative Relaxation Measurements in Ce³⁺ Doped Crystals" Li-Ji Lyu and D.S. Hamilton, J. Lumin., 48/49, 251 (1991).

"Pressure Dependence and Thermal Quenching of Chromium Photoluminescence in Cs₂NaYCl₆:Cr³⁺" A.G. Rinzler, J.F. Dolan, L.A. Kappers, D.S. Hamilton, and R.H. Bartram, J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 54, 89 (1993).

"Coherent Optical Transients in Rare Earth Doped Fibers: Enhancement of Accumulated Grating Signals by the Maximum Entropy Method" A.J. Lucero and D.S. Hamilton, J. Lumin., 60/61, 753 (1994).

"Electron Traps and Transfer Efficiency of Cerium-doped Aluminate Scintillators"  R.H. Bartram, D.S. Hamilton, L.A. Kappers, and A. Lempicki, J. Lumin., 75, 183 (1997).

"Energy Transfer from Gr³⁺ to Cr³⁺ in Cr Doped Gd₃Sc₂Ga₃O₁₂" S.K. Vargas and D.S. Hamilton, J. Lumin., 72/74, 904 (1997).

"Electron Traps and Transfer Efficiency of Cerium-doped Lutetium Oxyorthosilicate Scintillators"  R.H. Bartram, D.S. Hamilton, L.A. Kappers, and A. Lempicki, J. Glodo, J.S. Schweitzer, and C.L. Melcher, Radiation Effects & Defects in Solids, 150, 11 (1999).

"Two-photon excitation spectroscopy of Cr³⁺:K₂NaScF₆ elpasolite: I. Experimental aspects"  G.R. Wein, D.S. Hamilton, U. Sliwczuk, A. Rinzler, and R.H. Bartram, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 13, 2363 (2001).

"Two-photon excitation spectroscopy of Cr³⁺:K₂NaScF₆ elpasolite: II. Theoretical models"  R.H. Bartram, G.R. Wein, and D.S. Hamilton, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter, 13, 2377 (2001).

"Two-photon excitation spectra of Cr³⁺:K₂NaScF₆"  R.H. Bartram, G.R. Wein, D.S. Hamilton, U. Sliwczuk, and A.G. Rinzler, Radiation Effects & Defects in Solids, 154, 205 (2002).

"Thermal quenching and electron traps in LSO"  L.A. Kappers, R.H. Bartram, D.S. Hamilton, A. Lempicki and J. Glodo, J. Lumin., 102-103, 162 (2003).

"Infrared to visible up-conversion in thulium and holmium doped lutetium aluminum garnet"  Ki-Soo Lim, P. Babu, Sun-Kyun Lee, Van-Thai Pham, and D.S. Hamilton, J. Lumin., 102-103, 737 (2003).

"Hole traps in Lu₂O₃:Eu ceramic scintillators. II. Radioluminescence and thermoluminescence"  R.H. Bartram, A. Lempicki, L.A. Kappers, and D.S. Hamilton, J. Lumin., 106, 169 (2004).

"Afterglow, low-temperature radioluminescence and thermoluminescence of Lu₂O₃:Eu ceramic scintillators"  L.A. Kappers, R.H. Bartram, D.S. Hamilton, C. Brecher, and A. Lempicki, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A , 537, 443 (2005).

"Nonvolatile two-color holographic recording in Tm-doped near-stoichiometric LiNbO₃"  Van-Thai Pham, Sun-Kyun Lee, Minh-Tuan Trinh, Ki-Soo Lim, D.S. Hamilton, and K. Polgar, Opt. Comm. 248, 89 (2005).

"Suppression of afterglow in CsI:Tl by codoping with Eu²⁺ - II: Theoretical model"   R.H. Bartram, L.A. Kappers, D.S. Hamilton, A. Lempicki, C. Brecher, J. Glodo, V. Gaysinskiy, and E.E. Ovechkina, Nucl. Instrum. Methods A, 558, 458 (2006).

"Light-Induced Absorption and Holographic Recording in Pr:LiNbO₃"  Van-Thai Pham, Sun-Kyun Lee, Minh-Tuan Trinh and Ki-Soo Lim, and D. S. Hamilton, Jour. Korean Phys. Soc., 49, 533 (2006).

"Femtosecond laser-induced reduction in Eu-doped sodium borate glasses"  Ki-Soo Lim, Sunkyun Lee, Trinh-Minh Tuan, Jung-Rim Nam, Myeongkyu Lee, D.S. Hamilton, and G. N. Gibson, J. Lumin., 122-123, 14 (2007).

"Effect of Eu²⁺ concentration on afterglow suppression in CsI:Tl,Eu" L.A. Kappers, R.H. Bartram, D.S. Hamilton, C. Brecher, A. Lempicki, V. Gaysinskiy, E.E. Ovechkina and V.V. Nagarkar, Radiation Measurements, 42, 537 (2007).

BOOKS
Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference on Luminescence, eds. D.S. Hamilton, R.M. Meltzer, and M.D. Sturge, North Holland.

Revised March 30, 2008