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Article: Physicist and Engineer Researched Optics
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 17, 2009
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William H. "Hank" Carter, 70, a research physicist and electrical
engineer who worked for the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington
from 1971 to 1993 and conducted research in optics, concentrating on
the statistical properties of light, died March 20 at Suburban
Hospital. He had pulmonary fibrosis.
As part of his graduate work, Dr. Carter designed and built one
of the first lasers in Texas. Drawing on that foundation, he
conducted research on the nature of laser light, holography, digital
image processing and analysis, and coherence theory, which describes
the random behavior of light.
With physicist Emil Wolf, he was a co-discoverer of the quasi-
homogeneous source model. This concept ...