This is a tribute to Mansoor Shiek-Bahae who passed away July 10, 2023, the first day of the Hawaii Nonlinear Optics conference in Honolulu. See obituaries in Ref. [1]. Mansoor was scheduled to give an invited talk that morning but sent his postdoc Alex Albrecht to give the talk due to his illness.[2] It was a shock for all of us at the conference to have to announce his death there. My presentation at Photonics West will be my third talk about Mansoor’s contributions to the field of nonlinear optics. Of course, Mansoor is also well-known for his pioneering contributions to laser cooling which will be outlined by his former student, Denis Seletskiy, in this conference.
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