Robert W. Boyd

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Robert W. Boyd (2010)
Boyd with a slow light experiment in rubidium

Robert William Boyd (born March 8, 1948 in Buffalo , New York ) is an American physicist who deals with nonlinear optics .

Boyd graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and received his PhD in 1977 from the University of California, Berkeley , under Charles H. Townes . In 1977 he became Assistant Professor and 1987 Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester , where he was M. Parker Givens Professor from 2001 . From 2010 he was a professor at the University of Ottawa on a Canada Excellence Research Chair for nonlinear quantum optics.

From 1983 to 1985 he was visiting scientist at the JET Propulsion Laboratory of Caltech , 1987/88 visiting professor at the University of Toronto and he was visiting scientist at the University of Sussex .

Boyd was one of the first to demonstrate the slow light and fast light phenomena, first demonstrated in Bose-Einstein condensates and atomic vapors, also in solids at room temperature. He developed slow light methods based on coherent oscillations in the occupation populations and with stimulated Brillouin scattering and demonstrated a number of exotic effects such as backward propagation of light and recognized the possibility of using slow light to improve the spectral resolution of interferometers .

Boyd is one of the co-founders of the research field Quantum Imaging , in which quantum properties of light such as quantum entanglement and squeezed light are used to increase the resolution of optical images.

He wrote a textbook on nonlinear optics, investigated novel composite nonlinear optical materials, experimentally demonstrated a redshift predicted by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz as a consequence of local fields in 1991 and investigated four-wave mixing in atomic vapors in 1981 .

In 2009 he received the Willis E. Lamb Prize . In 2010 he received the Humboldt Research Award and in 2014 the Quantum Electronics Award . For 2016 he was awarded the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize for Laser Physics and the Charles Hard Townes Award . He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America , the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Canada (2019).

He has been married since 1971 and has two children.

Fonts

  • Nonlinear Optics . 3rd edition, Elsevier 2008 (first 1991).
  • Radiometry and the Detection of Optical Radiation . Wiley 1983.
  • as editor with Michael G. Raymer, LM Narducci: Optical Instabilities . Cambridge University Press 1986.
  • as editor with Govind P. Agrawal : Contemporary Nonlinear Optics . Academic Press 1992.
  • as editor: Self-focusing: past and present; fundamentals and prospects . Springer Verlag 2009.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Matthew S. Bigelow, Nick N. Lepeshkin, Robert W. Boyd: Superluminal and Slow Light Propagation in a Room-Temperature Solid . In: Science . tape 301 , no. 5630 , July 11, 2003, p. 200-202 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1084429 , PMID 12855803 .
  3. ^ Matthew S. Bigelow, Nick N. Lepeshkin, Robert W. Boyd: Observation of Ultraslow Light Propagation in a Ruby Crystal at Room Temperature . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 90 , no. 11 , March 21, 2003, p. 113903 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.90.113903 .
  4. ↑ George M. Gehring, Aaron Schweinsberg, Christopher Barsi, Natalie Kostinski, Robert W. Boyd: Observation of Backward Pulse Propagation Through a Medium with a Negative Group Velocity . In: Science . tape 312 , no. 5775 , May 12, 2006, p. 895-897 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1124524 , PMID 16690861 .
  5. ↑ Zhimin Shi, Robert W. Boyd, Daniel J. Gauthier, CC Dudley: Enhancing the spectral sensitivity of interferometers using slow-light media . In: Optics Letters . tape 32 , no. 8 , April 15, 2007, p. 915-917 , doi : 10.1364 / OL.32.000915 .
  6. ↑ Zhimin Shi, Robert W. Boyd, Ryan M. Camacho, Praveen K. Vudyasetu, John C. Howell: Slow-Light Fourier Transform Interferometer . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 99 , no. 24 , December 11, 2007, pp. 240801 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.99.240801 .
  7. ↑ Jeffery J. Maki, Michelle S. Malcuit, JE Sipe, Robert W. Boyd: Linear and nonlinear optical measurements of the Lorentz local field . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 67 , no. 8 , August 19, 1991, p. 972-975 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.67.972 .
  8. ^ Robert W. Boyd, Michael G. Raymer, Paul Narum, Donald J. Harter: Four-wave parametric interactions in a strongly driven two-level system . In: Physical Review A . tape 24 , no. 1 , July 1, 1981, p. 411-423 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevA.24.411 .
  9. ↑ Class of 2019 / Promotion 2019. (PDF) Royal Society of Canada / Société royale du Canada, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Boyd, Robert W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyd, Robert William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York