Alexander Gaeta

Alexander Luis Gaeta (born 1961) is an American physicist and the David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics at Columbia University. He is known for his work on quantum and nonlinear photonics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America), and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Alexander L. Gaeta
Alma materUniversity of Rochester
Known forNonlinear optics, founding editor of Optica (journal)
Scientific career
Thesis Stochastic and Deterministic Fluctuations in Stimulated Brillouin Scattering  (1991)
Doctoral advisorRobert W. Boyd