Robert
Boyd

Quantum Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Photonics

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Robert
Boyd

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23 Apr 2021

Congratulations to Enno Giese who has just accepted a position as assistant professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt. At TUD he will build up a group in Theoretical Quantum Optics at the Institute for Applied Physics.

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.

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Giant Third-Order Nonlinear Response of Liquids at Terahertz Frequencies. A. Tcypkin, M. Zhukova, M. Melnik, I. Vorontsova, M. Kulya, S. Putilin, S. Kozlov, S. Choudhary, and R. W. Boyd, Phys. Rev. A 15, 054009 (2021). [Link] [PDF]

Telecom C-band photon-pair generation using standard SMF-28 fiber. K. Park, D. Lee, R. W. Boyd, and H. Shin, Optics Communications 484, 126692 (2021). [Link] [PDF]

Confocal super-resolution microscopy based on a spatial mode sorter. K. K. M. Bearne, Y. Zhou, B. Braverman, J. Yang, S. A. Wadood, A. N. Jordan, A. N. Vamivakas, Z. Shi, and R. W. Boyd, Optics Express 29, 11784-11792 (2021). [Link] [PDF]