Tso Yee (T. Y.) Fan
11 - 15 October 2026
Radisson Blu Hotel Lietuva
Vilnius, LITHUANIA
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Tso Yee (T. Y.) Fan
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Cryogenic Solid-State Lasers
Cryogenic cooling provides advantages relative to 300 K of better thermo-optic properties and higher efficiency for transitions with a lower level near the ground state. These advantages set a path to high-average-power, diffraction-limited lasers.
About the Speaker
Tso Yee (T. Y.) Fan is Senior Staff in the Laser Technology and Applications Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He is widely recognized for his pioneering work in Yb-doped lasers, laser beam combining, optical materials measurements and cryogenic lasers. T. Y. is a Fellow of Optica and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He was the recipient of the MIT LL Technical Excellence Award and a co-awardee of the MIT LL Best Invention Award. He is also co-recipient of the Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis 2012, First Prize. He received bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and materials science and engineering from MIT and M. S. and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
