LASER PIONEERS
By Chrys Panayiotou, Ed.D.
Executive Director and Principal Investigator of LASER-TEC

James Pearson received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and is currently the Executive Director of the Florida Photonics Cluster. He started his
studies in 1963, when the fervor for laser invention and discovery was unprecedented. His career in industry includes positions in Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Hughes Research Labs, and United
Technologies among others. Since 1993 James worked for SPIE and ISA as executive director, and he is now holding the same position at the Florida Photonics Cluster. Dr. Pearson is a Fellow of both SPIE and the Optical Society of America and senior member of the IEEE.

I talked to Dr. Pearson about his personal experiences in the early days of the invention of the laser and his journey through the last 60 years of laser history

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