Robert
Boyd

Quantum Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Photonics

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Boyd

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30 Oct 2020

Congratulations to former student and current colleague Ksenia Dolgaleva on the publication of her textbook Introduction to Optics I, Interaction of Light with Matter, published this month by Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

16 Sep 2020

Congratulations to Nick and Libby Black on the birth of their first child, Henry Anderson Black, on September 11, 2020. Nick is a current PhD student in the Boyd group at the University of Rochester.

26 Aug 2020

Congratulations to Ksenia Dolgaleva on the birth of her son Ivan on August 12, 2020. In the back row of the photo is Evgueni Kobzev (father) holding Ivan and standing next to Ksenia. In the front row are Ivan’s sisters Anastasia (left) and Nina (right). Ksenia is on her way to having a whole family of physicists.

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Dynamic coherent perfect absorption in nonlinear metasurfaces. R. Alaee, Y. Vaddi, and R. W. Boyd, Optics Letters 45, Issue 23, 6414-6417 (2020) [Link] [PDF]

Fundamental Radiative Processes in Near-Zero-Index Media of Various Dimensionalities. M. Lobet,I. Liberal,E. N. Knall, M. Z. Alam, O. Reshef, R. W. Boyd, N. Engheta, and E. Mazur, ACS Photonics 7, 1965-1970 (2020). [Link] [PDF]

Fast generation and detection of spatial modes of light using an acousto-optic modulator. B. Braverman, A. Skerjanc, N. Sullivan, and R. W. Boyd , Optics Express 28, 29112-29121 (2020). [Link] [PDF]