Thomas M. Baer

Thomas M. Baer is an adjunct professor in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. At Spectra-Physics he developed the first diode-pumped intracavity-doubled solid-state lasers and served as vice president of research and Spectra-Physics Fellow. His 1986 paper gave the accepted description of the green problem. He is a Fellow of Optica and of the AAAS and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was president of the Optical Society (now Optica) in 2009, and was the executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center from 2005 to 2022.