Raymond Chiao

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Raymond Y. Chiao (born October 9, 1940 in Hong Kong ) is an American experimental physicist who mainly deals with quantum optics .

Raymond Chiao

Life

Chiao moved to the United States as a child in 1947, grew up in New York City and studied electrical engineering and then physics at Princeton University from 1957 (bachelor's degree in 1961), among others with John Archibald Wheeler . He originally worked in theoretical physics at Wheeler, but then switched to experimental quantum optics at MIT, where he received his doctorate in 1965 under laser pioneer Charles H. Townes (on one of the first observations of stimulated Brillouin scattering ). In 1967 he became an assistant professor at MIT and a Sloan Research Fellow . In the same year he went to the University of California, Berkeley , where he was a professor until 2006. In 2006 he went to the University of California, Merced , founded the previous year, to do gravitational wave research. There he is now Professor Emeritus.

In 1993 he measured (after previous experiments by Günter Nimtz in the microwave range) with his doctoral student Aephraim Steinberg the tunnel speed (about 1.7 times the speed of light) for individual photons. He was also the first to demonstrate the Berry phase in optical experiments .

In 2006 he received the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics and in 1993 the Einstein Prize for Laser Science.

Fonts

  • with John Garrison: Quantum Optics. Oxford University Press 2008
  • (Ed.): Amazing Light - a volume dedicated to Charles H. Townes on his 80th birthday. Springer 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RY Chiao, CH Townes & BP Stoicheff: Stimulated Brillouin scattering and coherent generation of intense hypersonic waves. In: Phys. Rev. Lett. Vol. 12, 1964, p. 592
  2. ^ Raymond Chiao. ucmerced.edu, accessed November 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ AM Steinberg, PG Kwiat & RY Chiao: Measurement of the Single-Photon Tunneling Time. In: Physical Review Letters. Vol. 71, 1993, pp. 708-711 ( PDF; 797 kB )
  4. ↑ AM Steinberg & RY Chiao: Tunneling delay times in one and two dimensions. In: Physical Review A. Vol. 49, 1994, pp. 3283-3295.
  5. ^ A. Tomita & RY Chiao: Observation of Berry's Topological Phase by Use of an Optical Fiber. In: Physical Review Letters. Vol. 57, 1986, pp. 937-940.
personal data
SURNAME Chiao, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chiao, Raymond Y.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hong Kong