Tang edited the volume on quantum electronics in the Methods of Experimental Physics series and was coeditor of the volumes on nonlinear optics in the Treatise on Quantum Electronics , both published by Academic Press. He was an associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and an associate editor of Optics Letters . In 1996 he was presented the Charles Hard Townes Award by the Optical Society of America. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Optical Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. The objective of our research program is to search for and study new optical materials and processes that are suitable for application in the generation, modulation, and detection of electromagnetic radiation from the infrared to the ultraviolet.
Emphasis is on lasers, electro-optic devices, and nonlinear and coherent optical processes.
Selected Publications Tang, C. L. 1990. Utrafast optical pulses. Invited review, Encyclopedia of Physics, 2nd ed., ed. R. G. Lerner and G. L. Trigg. Ozeki, Y., J. E. Johnson, and C. L. Tang.