Girish Agarwal
Girish Saran Agarwal (* July 7, 1946 in Bareilly ) is an Indian- American physicist.
Agarwal 1969 his doctorate at the University of Rochester. He was ten years Director of the Research Laboratory of Physics at Ahmedabad and Albert Einstein Research Professor of the Indian National Science Academy. He is Regents Professor of Physics at Oklahoma State University.
Agarwal is concerned with theoretical quantum optics, where he published seminal works 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 of lasers to modify the dispersive properties of optical media can be used, which in 1990 was influential in the introduction of electromagnetically induced transparency by Stephen E. Harris and colleagues. Your motivation at that time was the so-called problem of low VUV ( vacuum ultraviolet radiation ), the problem of the intensity generated in nonlinear optics by parametric conversion coherent UV radiation.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, the Royal Society (2008) and member of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the Third World Academy of Sciences and the Indian National Science Academy.
In 1988 he was awarded the Max Born Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1992 and 1997, a Humboldt Research Award. In 1994 he received the Physics Prize of the Third World Academy of Sciences.
Writings
- 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
- Editors Selected Papers on Fundamentals of Quantum Optics, SPIE Press 1995
- Editors Selected Papers on Resonant and Collective Phenomena in Quantum Optics, SPIE Press 1995