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Bruce Craver

Professor Emeritus

Full-Time Faculty, Emeritus

College of Arts and Sciences: Physics

Contact

Email: Bruce Craver
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Degrees

  • Ph.D., Purdue University, 1976

Profile

Dr. Bruce Craver was a faculty member of the Department of Physics and also taught for the Premedical Program. He received his B.S. in physics in 1969, his M.S. in 1973 and his Ph.D. in 1976, all from Purdue University. He then held post-doctoral positions at Purdue and the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the University of Mainz (Germany). Starting in 1978, Dr. Craver was a member of the physics department at the University of Dayton. While at UD he taught at levels of the undergraduate program and taught a course in the electro-optics program. After coming to UD, Dr. Craver started to conduct research in the area of non-linear optics and its applications to optical limiting. 

Dr. Craver is a member of the American Physical Society and the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society. He was active in the Ohio Section since arriving at UD and served on the Executive Committee of the Ohio Section for over 10 years. Dr. Craver also supervised two undergraduate Berry Scholars' senior theses and one M.S. candidate in the EO program at UD.

Research interests

  • Quantum optic
  • Flourescence