Richart E. Slusher

Richart Slusher Elliott ( born May 20, 1938 in Higginsville, Missouri) is an American physicist.

Slusher graduated from the University of Missouri- Rolla with a bachelor 's degree in 1960 and in 1965 received his doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1965 he worked at Bell Laboratories. Where he was director from 1977 Optical Physics Research Department. He remained until 2007 at Bell Labs. After that, he was a Principal Research Scientist at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. He is the Director of The Georgia Tech Quantum Institute.

In 1985 he succeeded with colleagues, the experimental demonstration of squeezed light.

In 1995 he received the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize for Laser Physics for fundamental contributions in a wide range of optical physics, for example, nonlinear optics in semiconductors, the spin flip led laser diagnostics of fusion plasmas with carbon dioxide lasers, microcavity lasers and the in particular, the experimental realization of squeezed light. In 1989 he received the Einstein Award for Laser Science and the 2006 Max Born Award of the Optical Society of America. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America.