Ravinder Kumar Jain is an American engineer, physicist, and academic from the University of New Mexico. He was awarded the status of Fellow [1] in the American Physical Society, [2] after they were nominated by their Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics in 2008, [3] for pioneering contributions in several areas of applied physics, including discovery of plasmon-mediated light-emission from tunnel junctions, seminal studies of nonlinear optics in semiconductors and optical fibers, and the invention of several important ultrashort pulse lasers and fiber lasers.
He received a PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 1974. [4]