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13 Nov 18
Congratulations to Robert Fickler who has just joined the faculty of Tampere University. He is looking for students and postdocs to join him.
28 May 18
New graduate course to be offered fall 2018. Boris Braverman and Robert Boyd will be jointly teaching a course on Quantum Information and Metrology PHY8191(C) during the fall semester.
25 May 18
Congratulations to Omar Magaña! Omar has just accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University. Way to go, Omar.

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Realization of a scalable Laguerre–Gaussian mode sorter based on a robust radial mode sorter. D. Fu, Y. Zhou, R. Qi, S. Oliver, Y. Wang, S. M. H. Rafsanjani, J. Zhao, M. Mirhosseini, Z. Shi, P. Zhang, and R. W. Boyd, Optics Express Vol. 26, Issue 25, pp. 33057-33065 (2018). [Link] [PDF]
Demonstration of a 10 Mbit/s quantum communication link by encoding data on two Laguerre–Gaussian modes with different radial indices. K. Pang, C. Liu, G. Xie, Y. Ren, Z. Zhao, R. Zhang, Y. Cao, J. Zhao, H. Song, H. Song, L. Li, A. N. Willner, M. Tur, R. W. Boyd, and A. E. Willner, Optics Letters, Vol. 43 No. 22 (2018). [Link] [PDF]
Reconstructing the topology of optical polarization knots. H. Larocque, D. Sugic, D. Mortimer, A. J. Taylor, R. Fickler, R. W. Boyd, M. R. Dennis and E. Karimi, Nature Physics, volume 14, pages 1079–1082 (2018). [Link] [PDF]

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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Photonics
University of Rochester, Boyd-Group Legacy Website
University of Rochester Website
University of Ottawa CERC group legacy website (2010-2017)
Max Planck- University of Ottawa Center for Extreme and Quantum Photonics
Centre for Research in Photonics
Canada Excellence Research Chair