Mark G. Kuzyk

Present Position
Associate Professor, Department of Physics

Education
Bachelor of Arts, University of Pennsylvania (1979)
Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania (1981)
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania (1985)

Professional Experience
Visiting Professor, Technology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (1989)
Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories (1985-90)
Assistant Professor, Physics, Washington State University (1990-95)
Assistant Professor, Materials Science, Washington State University (1991-95)
Associate Professor, Physics, Washington State Univeristy (1995- present)

Instructions and Seminar Topics
Nonlinear optics

Honors and Awards
Faculty Excellence Award, Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (1993-94)

Industry Involvement
Consultant, Hoechst-Celanese Inc. , polymer optical fiber
Consultant, Sentel Technologies, photo mechanical devices

Specialties and Research Areas
Response of materials to strong electric fields as generated by intense lasers, with concentraions on the nonlinear optical properties of guest-host polymers and on microscopic mechanisms of molecular electron cloud distortion and reorientation.

Recent Publications
M. G. Kuzyk, D. W. Garvey, S. R. Vigil, D. J. Welker, "All-optical devices in polymer optical fiber," Chemical Physics, 245, 533 (1999).

M. G. Kuzyk, "Physical Limits on Electronic Nonlinear Molecular Susceptibilities," Physical Review Letters 85, 1218 (2000).

S. R. Vigil and M. G. Kuzyk, "Absolute molecular optical Kerr-effect spectroscopy of dilute organic solutions and neat organic liquids," J. Opt. Soc. Am B 18, 679 (2001).