Erich P. Ippen is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He is one of the leaders of RLE’s Optics and Quantum Electronics Group.
In 1989 he was also elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for his pioneering work in the generation, measurement, and application to physical systems of picosecond and femtosecond light pulses" [4] Professor Ippen is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
[6] He is the recipient of OSA’s R. W. Wood Award (1981), Charles Hard Townes Medal (2004), and the Society's highest honor, the Frederic Ives Medal/Jarus W. Quinn Prize (2006).
Most recently, Ippen was named an Honorary Member of the Society in 2020.