Girish Saran Agarwal

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Girish Saran Agarwal (born July 7, 1946 in Bareilly ) is an Indian - American physicist .

Agarwal received his PhD from the University of Rochester in 1969 . For ten years he was Director of the Physics Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad and Albert Einstein Research Professor at the Indian National Science Academy . He is Regent's Professor of Physics at Oklahoma State University .

Agarwal deals with theoretical quantum optics , where he published fundamental work, in particular on the non-classical properties of light and its interaction with atoms, but also, for example, on phase space methods and the use of the master equation in quantum optics. He was one of the first to realize that intense electromagnetic fields from lasers can be used to modify the dispersive properties of optical media, which was influential when Stephen E. Harris and colleagues introduced electromagnetically induced transparency in 1990. Their motivation at the time was the so-called VUV problem (for vacuum ultraviolet radiation ), the problem of low intensity of the coherent UV radiation generated in nonlinear optics by parametric conversion.

Since 1981 he has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society , the Optical Society of America and since 2008 the Royal Society and a member of the Indian Academy of Sciences , the Third World Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy.

In 1988 he received the Max Born Award , in 1992 the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and in 1997 a Humboldt Research Prize . In 1994 he received the Physics Prize from the Third World Academy of Sciences .

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  • Quantum statistical theories of spontaneous emission and their relation to other approaches , Springer Tracts in Modern Physics Volume 70, 1974
  • Quantum Optics , Cambridge University Press 2012
  • Editor Selected Papers on Fundamentals of Quantum Optics , SPIE Press 1995
  • Editor Selected Papers on Resonant and Collective Phenomena in Quantum Optics , SPIE Press 1995

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laudation for admission to the Royal Society, pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / 202.41.85.100  
  2. ↑ Surya P. Tewari, GS Agarwal: Control of Phase Matching and Nonlinear Generation in Dense Media by Resonant Fields . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 56 , no. 17 , April 28, 1986, pp. 1811-1814 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.56.1811 .
  3. ^ OSU Physics Professor Elected to The Royal Society. Oklahoma State University, May 16, 2008, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  4. ^ Max Born Award. Winners. OSA, accessed on February 15, 2018 (English): "For extensive contributions to the understanding of the interaction of radiation with matter, particularly in the areas of coherence, superflourescence, bistability, and nonlinear surface phenomena"
personal data
SURNAME Agarwal, Girish Saran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agarwal, Girish Saran (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Bareilly