Robert W. Boyd

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

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

From 1983 to 1985 he was a visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, 1987/88 Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto and he was a visiting scientist at the University of Sussex.

Boyd was one of the first who demonstrated the first demonstrated in Bose - Einstein condensates and atomic vapors Slow Light and Fast Light phenomena in solids at room temperature. He developed methods based on Slow Light coherent oscillations in the occupation of populations and stimulated Brillouin scattering and demonstrated with a number of exotic effects such as backward propagation of light and recognized the opportunity to work with Slow Light to improve the spectral resolution of interferometers ..

Boyd is one of the founders of the field of research Quantum Imaging, light can be used in the quantum properties of light such as quantum entanglement and Squashed to increase the resolution of optical images.

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

In 2009 he was awarded the Willis E. Lamb Award. In 2010 he received the Humboldt Research Award. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society.

He has been married since 1971 and has two children.

Writings

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