Ravinder Kumar Jain is an American engineer, physicist, and academic from the

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. He was awarded the status of Fellow in the

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, after they were nominated by their Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics in 2008, 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.

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