Oriel College, Oxford
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(DPhil).
Career
After working at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Webb returned to Oxford as a research fellow in physics at the Clarendon Laboratory in 1968, and was appointed to a university lectureship in 1971, becoming reader in 1990 and professor in 1992. He served as head of Atomic and Laser Physics from 1995 to 1999, and became an emeritus professor in 2002. Jesus College, Oxford appointed him to a Fellowship in 1973; he became a senior research fellow in 1988 and an emeritus fellow in 2005. Webb has supervised more than 35 DPhil students. In 1977, he founded Oxford Lasers a company that began as a manufacturer of high-power copper lasers and that today focuses on high-speed imaging and laser micro-machining technology.
Research
Webb is considered a pioneer in British laser research and has made significant contributions in the areas of hollow cathode metal-vapor lasers,
copper vapor laser
Copper vapor laser (CVL) uses vapors of copper as the lasing medium in a 4-level laser. It produces green laser light at 510.6 nm and yellow laser light at 578.2 nm. The pulse width is typically from 5 to 60 ns, and peak power from 50 ...
s, high-power copper vapor laser-pumped
dye lasers
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, and excimer lasers. His work on hollow-cathode metal-vapor lasers led to the discovery of numerous new laser transition in the visible spectrum.
His publications include (as editor in chief) ''Handbook of Laser Technology and Applications'' (2003) as well as various papers on lasers and laser mechanisms in academic journals and specialized books.C. E. Webb, High-power dye lasers pumped by copper vapor lasers, in ''High Power Dye Lasers'',
F. J. Duarte
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His research on physical optics and laser development has won several awards, including an Engineering Excellence Award in ...
(Ed.) (Springer, Berlin, 1991) Chapter 5. He has also co-authored a textbook in laser physics in 2010, with Simon Hooker of Oxford.S. Hooker and C. E. Webb, ''Laser Physics'', (Oxford University Press, 2010
Paterson Lecture
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Fellow of the Institute of Physics
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