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Press Release: Quantum Aberration Correction

8 Nov 2022

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Former group member Mehul Malik receives the Early Career Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

27 Sep 2021

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‘Flipping’ optical wavefront eliminates distortions in multimode fibers

13 May 2021

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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.

23 Apr 2021

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.

30 Oct 2020

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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.

16 Sep 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.

26 Aug 2020

Congratulations to Akbar Safari and his wife Mobina Alizadeh on the August 5 birth of their daughter Melody Safari.

17 Aug 2020

Congratulations to Zahirul Alam and his wife Fatima Uddin on the July 4 birth of their son Aydin Muhammad Alamuddin.

29 Jul 2020

Congratulations to John and Eimi Heebner on the occasion of their wedding on July 20 at Yosemite National Park.

28 Jul 2020

(From what John tells me, this photo is not a fake; the Milky Way really is that bright with a 10 sec exposure.)

Congratulations to Saad Jaddua for successfully defending his MSc thesis on July 23, 2020 via a Zoom link.

27 Jul 2020

Thesis title: Propagation of a Single Photon in a 1-D Waveguide Coupled to a V-Type Atom.
Photo: Clockwise from upper left: Jeff Lundeen, Committee Member; Robert Boyd, Thesis Supervisor; Jacob Krich, Committee
Member; Saad Jaddua, MSc Candidate; André Staudte, Committee Chair.

Congratulations to Girish Kulkurani and his wife Mugdha Kulashreshtha on the July 10 birth of their daughter Mehak Kulkurani.

15 Jul 2020

Congratulations to Mehul Malik

30 Jun 2020

Congratulations to Boyd-group alumnus Mehul Malik who was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Physics at Heriot-Watt University.

Congratulations to Katherine Bearne and her teammates for their victory at the 2019 FISU University World Cup.

3 Dec 2019

Congratulations to Mohammad Mirhosseini (former group PhD student) who has just accepted a faculty position at Caltech.

11 Nov 2019

Robert Boyd receives certificate from Max Planck Director Florian Marquardt naming him Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen.

4 Nov 2019

Robert Boyd visits the University of Minnesota to present the Colloquium of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

18 Apr 2019

The photo shows Mitchell Luskin, Sang-Hyun Oh, Bob, Jim Ledger, and Tony Low on the observation platform of the Guthrie Theatre with the Mississippi River in the background.

Congratulations to our former group member Alexander Gaeta for winning the 2019 Charles Hard Townes Award.

8 Apr 2019

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Robert Boyd with Robert Millard (left), Chair of the MIT Corporation, and Susan Hockfield (right), former President of MIT

22 Feb 2019

Robert Boyd wins the 2018-2019 University of Ottawa Researcher of the Year Award

19 Feb 2019

Lab visit with Nobel Laureate in Physics Dr. Donna Strickland

18 Jan 2019

Congratulations to Robert Fickler who has just joined the faculty of Tampere University. He is looking for students and postdocs to join him.

13 Nov 2018

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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.

28 May 2018

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Congratulations to Omar Magaña! Omar has just accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University. Way to go, Omar.

25 May 2018

Congratulations to Sebastian Schulz for his new faculty position at the University of St. Andrews.

26 Mar 2018

Congratulations to Mehul Malik for his new faculty position at Heriot-Watt University.

26 Mar 2018

Boyd group reunion in Baton Rouge

15 Mar 2018

Physics family photo where former Boyd-student Mark Gruneisen meets current Boyd group members Robert Fickler and Fredéric Bouchard at the International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC) at LSU in Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

Marco Liscidini of the University of Pavia presents the Quantum Photonics seminar on Engineering non-classical light in integrated devices

7 Mar 2018

Robert Boyd Working to Realize Orbital Angular Momentum Quantum Cryptography Protocol

22 Feb 2018

Chinese researchers have put forward a new quantum cryptography standard which Robert Boyd has begun work to realize in the lab. ([Link])

Photonics breakthrough could significantly boost internet speeds

9 Feb 2018

A breakthrough in materials for photonics applications could result in faster internet speeds by a considerable order of magnitude. [Link], the new technology combines two known concepts: meta-materials consisting of arrays of antennas and a thin film of a non-linear material. ([Link])

Metamaterial could boost internet speeds, cut power

7 Feb 2018

A team from the University of Ottawa and Ireland’s Tyndall National Institute and Cork Institute of Technology has developed a custom, artificial material that could improve several nonlinear optical applications. Alongside better internet speeds, the team suggests that thinner lenses could be created for cameras and mobile phones, as could

“Generation of Caustics and Rogue Waves from Nonlinear Instability” named Editor’s suggestion

10 Dec 2017

“Generation of Caustics and Rogue Waves from Nonlinear Instability” named Editor’s suggestion in Physical Letters Review. ([Link])

Taiwan’s Minister of Science Visits the Boyd Group.

25 Oct 2017

Liang-Gee Chen, Taiwan’s Minister of Science and Technology visits the Advanced Research Group.

Congratulations to M. Zahirul Alam

19 Oct 2017

for being selected by the Award Committee to receive the Best Student Paper Award (first place) for his paper “Unity-order Nonlinear Index Change in a Metasurface” presented at Photonics North 2017 in Ottawa.The award certificate will be presented to him at the IEEE Ottawa Section Annual General Meeting(AGM), to be held

Dr. Orad Reshef is awarded the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

17 Jul 2017

Dr. Orad Reshef is awarded the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for his proposal, “Nonlinear optics in integrated zero-index media.” [Link]

A 100-year-old physics problem has been solved at EPFL

23 Jun 2017

EPFL researchers have found a way around what was considered a fundamental limitation of physics for over 100 years. They were able to conceive resonant systems that can store electromagnetic waves over a long period of time while maintaining a broad bandwidth. ([Link])

“Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides in a Kagome Lattice” named Editor’s Pick

1 May 2017

“Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides in a Kagome Lattice” was named Editor’s pick. ([Link])

Physicists detect exotic looped trajectories of light in three-slit experiment

6 Jan 2017

Physicists have performed a variation of the famous 200-year-old double-slit experiment that, for the first time, involves “exotic looped trajectories” of photons. These photons travel forward through one slit, then loop around and travel back through another slit, and then sometimes loop around again and travel forward through a third

“Application-tailored optimisation of photonic crystal waveguides” named paper of the week

1 Nov 2016

The paper “Application-tailored optimisation of photonic crystal waveguides” was named paper of the week by the Journal of Optics. ([Link])

Robert Boyd gives an invited talk at the Royal Society of London

17 Aug 2016

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Robert Boyd was appointed as a IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer a second year in a row

17 Aug 2016

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Robert Boyd awarded the 2016 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science

17 Aug 2016

Robert Boyd was awarded the 2016 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science for his to recognize outstanding contributions to basic research which uses lasers to advance our knowledge of the fundamental physical properties of materials and their interaction with light. [Link]

Dr. Robert Fickler is awarded the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for his proposal, “Twisting Macroscopic Quantum Light.”

17 Jun 2016

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Record Optical Nonlinearity in a Semiconductor

5 May 2016

Researchers at a U.S. university have found a record nonlinear optical response in a commonly available semiconductor (Science, doi: [Link]). The results could open new avenues for building tiny structures for many nanophotonics applications. ([Link])

Indium Tin Oxide Might Be the Material Photonics Has Been Waiting For

28 Apr 2016

A team led by Robert Boyd, a physicist at the University of Ottawa and the University of Rochester, [Link] that a transparent metal called indium tin oxide (ITO), which is often used in touchscreens and on airplane windows, can achieve a particularly high degree of optical nonlinearity—making it a good candidate for

‘Game-changer’ for photonics applications: Researchers demonstrate record optical nonlinearity

28 Apr 2016

A team, led by Robert W. Boyd, Professor of Optics and Physics at the University of Rochester and the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa, has demonstrated that the transparent, electrical conductor [Link] can result in up to 100 times greater nonlinearity

A twist on Hanbury Brown—Twiss interferometry offers new approach for remote sensing

8 Apr 2016

In a paper, published in Science Advances today, the researchers demonstrate that for light from a source such as the Sun, random fluctuations of intensity give rise to correlations of [Link] beams. They showed the presence of these correlations by modifying a now classical experiment called Hanbury Brown – Twiss (HBT)

Researchers demonstrate a new way to characterize twisted light

1 Apr 2016

Researchers at the University of Rochester have overcome experimental challenges to demonstrate a new way for getting a full picture of twisted light: characterizing the Wigner distribution. ([Link])

Robert Boyd awarded the 2016 Charles Hard Townes Award

14 Mar 2016

Robert Boyd was awarded the 2016 Charles Hard Townes Award by the Optical Society of America for fundamental contributions to the field of nonlinear optics, including the development of methods for controlling the velocity of light, of quantum imaging methods, and of composite nonlinear optical materials. [Link]

Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel

21 Oct 2015

In their paper, the physicists proposed two ways to model this phenomena—one theoretical and one experimental—both of which use the infinite number of quantum states of a quantum system to represent the infinite number of hotel rooms in a hotel. ([Link])

Adding Quantum Rooms to the Hilbert Hotel

15 Oct 2015

An optical experiment realizes one of the room-changing operations in the Hilbert Hotel—a fictitious establishment that illustrates some perplexing properties of infinity. ([Link])

Robert Boyd presents his view on Charles Townes’ legacy at a meeting of former Townes Ph.D. students

17 Aug 2015

Check out this video produced by the Canada Excellence Research Chair program

17 Aug 2015

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Press Release: Quantum Aberration Correction

Former group member Mehul Malik receives the Early Career Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

‘Flipping’ optical wavefront eliminates distortions in multimode fibers

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.

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.

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.

Congratulations to Akbar Safari and his wife Mobina Alizadeh on the August 5 birth of their daughter Melody Safari.

Congratulations to Zahirul Alam and his wife Fatima Uddin on the July 4 birth of their son Aydin Muhammad Alamuddin.

Congratulations to John and Eimi Heebner on the occasion of their wedding on July 20 at Yosemite National Park.

Congratulations to Saad Jaddua for successfully defending his MSc thesis on July 23, 2020 via a Zoom link.

Congratulations to Girish Kulkurani and his wife Mugdha Kulashreshtha on the July 10 birth of their daughter Mehak Kulkurani.

Congratulations to Mehul Malik

Congratulations to Katherine Bearne and her teammates for their victory at the 2019 FISU University World Cup.

Congratulations to Mohammad Mirhosseini (former group PhD student) who has just accepted a faculty position at Caltech.

Robert Boyd receives certificate from Max Planck Director Florian Marquardt naming him Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen.

Robert Boyd visits the University of Minnesota to present the Colloquium of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Congratulations to our former group member Alexander Gaeta for winning the 2019 Charles Hard Townes Award.

Robert Boyd with Robert Millard (left), Chair of the MIT Corporation, and Susan Hockfield (right), former President of MIT

Robert Boyd wins the 2018-2019 University of Ottawa Researcher of the Year Award

Lab visit with Nobel Laureate in Physics Dr. Donna Strickland

Congratulations to Robert Fickler who has just joined the faculty of Tampere University. He is looking for students and postdocs to join him.

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.

Congratulations to Omar Magaña! Omar has just accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Physics at Louisiana State University. Way to go, Omar.

Congratulations to Sebastian Schulz for his new faculty position at the University of St. Andrews.

Congratulations to Mehul Malik for his new faculty position at Heriot-Watt University.

Boyd group reunion in Baton Rouge

Marco Liscidini of the University of Pavia presents the Quantum Photonics seminar on Engineering non-classical light in integrated devices

Robert Boyd Working to Realize Orbital Angular Momentum Quantum Cryptography Protocol

Photonics breakthrough could significantly boost internet speeds

Metamaterial could boost internet speeds, cut power

“Generation of Caustics and Rogue Waves from Nonlinear Instability” named Editor’s suggestion

Taiwan’s Minister of Science Visits the Boyd Group.

Congratulations to M. Zahirul Alam

Dr. Orad Reshef is awarded the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

A 100-year-old physics problem has been solved at EPFL

“Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides in a Kagome Lattice” named Editor’s Pick

Physicists detect exotic looped trajectories of light in three-slit experiment

“Application-tailored optimisation of photonic crystal waveguides” named paper of the week

Robert Boyd gives an invited talk at the Royal Society of London

Robert Boyd was appointed as a IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer a second year in a row

Robert Boyd awarded the 2016 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science

Dr. Robert Fickler is awarded the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship for his proposal, “Twisting Macroscopic Quantum Light.”

Record Optical Nonlinearity in a Semiconductor

Indium Tin Oxide Might Be the Material Photonics Has Been Waiting For

‘Game-changer’ for photonics applications: Researchers demonstrate record optical nonlinearity

A twist on Hanbury Brown—Twiss interferometry offers new approach for remote sensing

Researchers demonstrate a new way to characterize twisted light

Robert Boyd awarded the 2016 Charles Hard Townes Award

Physicists experimentally realize a quantum Hilbert hotel

Adding Quantum Rooms to the Hilbert Hotel

Robert Boyd presents his view on Charles Townes’ legacy at a meeting of former Townes Ph.D. students

Check out this video produced by the Canada Excellence Research Chair program

Article selected for Journal of Optics as a Highlight of 2015

Dr. Gerd Leuchs and Dr. Robert Boyd invited for Max-Planck-Forum in Berlin on Quantum Cryptography

‘Twisted light’ gives quantum cryptography a boost

Orbital angular momentum Broadband Generation

Generating Mobius strips of light

Möbius strips of light made for the first time

How to twist light into a Möbius strip

Sad News: Nobel laureate and laser inventor Charles Townes dies at 99

Big Twist for Electron Beam

Marie-Claude Dicaire wins the 2014 IEEE Ottawa Photonics Student Best Paper Award

Prof. Robert Boyd wins the 2014 IEEE Quantum Electronics award for his contributions to nonlinear optics

Robert Boyd’s contributions honored with election to SPIE Fellowship

uOttawa officially opens the Advanced Research Complex

New analysis rescues quantum wave-particle duality

Duality principle is “safe and sound”: Researchers clear up apparent violation of quantum mechanics’ wave-particle duality

Robert Boyd is awarded honorary doctorate by University of Glasgow

Next-gen quantum teleportation in just 2 photons

Nature News & View: Bright electron twisters

Physicists see 27th dimension of photons

Physicists scoop information from Schrödinger’s cat box

University of Ottawa researchers get $1.6M in funding boost

Mohammad Mirhosseini, member of Robert Boyd’s research team at University of Rochester, won the Emil Wolf prize

Scientists discover a way around Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

First weak measurements made on optical polarization states

Research Breakthrough: uOttawa Physicist Makes First Direct Measurements Of Quantum States Of Light

Schrödinger’s Cat could be visible after all