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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Photon Acceleration Using a Time-Varying Epsilon-near-Zero Metasurface. C. Liu, M. Z. Alam, K. Pang, K. Manukyan, O. Reshef, Y. Zhou, S. Choudhary, J. Patrow, A. Pennathurs, H. Song, Z. Zhao, R. Zhang, F. Alishahi, A. Fallahpour, Y. Cao, A. Almaiman, J. M. Dawlaty, M. Tur, R. W. Boyd, and A. E. Willner, ACS Photonics, 1929 (2021). [Link] [PDF]

Ultra-high-Q resonances in plasmonic metasurfaces. M. S. Bin-Alam, O. Reshef, Y. Mamchur, M. Z. Alam, G. Carlow, J. Upham, B. T. Sullivan, J-M. Ménard, M. J. Huttunen, R. W. Boyd and K. Dolgaleva, Nature Communications 12, 974 (2021). [Link] [PDF]

Superscattering, Superabsorption, and Nonreciprocity in Nonlinear Antennas. L. Cheng, R. Alaee, A. Safari, M. Karimi, L. Zhang, and R. W. Boyd, ACS Photonics (2021) [Link] [PDF]