Presentations

Quantum Imaging and Ghost Imaging

Presented at Brookhaven National Labortory, March 10, 2022. [PDF]

How Light Behaves When The Refractive Index Vanishes

Presented as the Physics Colloquium at the University of Darmstadt, January 21, 2022. [PDF]

Tailoring light propagation through controllable phase and group velocities

Presented at the Mexican Optics and Photonics Meeting, November 20, 2021. [PDF]

Tailoring light propagation through controllable phase and group velocities

Topical Problems of Nonlinear Wave Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, September 20, 2021. [PDF]

How Light Behaves When The Refractive Index Vanishes

CLEO / Europe, as a virtual conference, June 21, 2021. [PDF]

Nonlinear Optics of Time-Varying Media

The virtual Workshop on Time-Varying Media, Imperial College, London, May 26, 2021. [PDF]

How Light Behaves When The Refractive Index Vanishes

the Tampere University “International Day of Light” Conference, May 21, 2021. [PDF]

Physics and Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero materials

A Keynote Presentation at Photonics West, SPIE OPTO, March 7, 2021. [PDF]

Tailoring light propagation through controllable phase and group velocities

the International School of Photonics at Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, INDIA, March 4, 2021. [PDF]

How Light Behaves When the Refractive Index Vanishes

he Joint Karl-Franzens-University—University of Technology, Graz, Austria, Online Colloquium, March 2, 2021. [PDF]

Designer Materials for Photonics

the Optics and Photonics Society of Iran, February 2, 2021. [PDF]

Nonlinear Photonics with Low-Index Materials

the OSA Laser Congress 2020, October 13, 2020. [PDF]

How Light Behaves When The Refractive Index Vanishes

the Imperial College Optical Society (ICOS) and the IC student chapters of OSA and SPIE, July 28, 2020. [PDF]

Physics and Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials

the Nonlinear Photonics virtual meeting, a part of the OSA Advanced Photonics Congress, July 16, 2020. [PDF]

Progress in Quantum Imaging

Photonics North, an online virtual conference, May 27, 2020. [PDF]

How Light Behaves When The Refractive Index Vanishes

CLEO, San Jose, CA, USA, May 13, 2020. [PDF]

Research Program of the Boyd Research Group

the Annual Meeting of the Max Planck - University of Ottawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Electronics, Erlangen, Germany., October 30, 2019. [PDF]

How Light Behaves when the Refractive Index Vanishes

the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, October 25, 2019. [PDF]

How light behaves when the Refractive Index Vanishes

Presented at Frontiers in Optics, Washington DC, September 17, 2019. [PDF]

Quantum Imaging

Presented at the workshop on Advances in Computational and Quantum Imaging (ACQI), Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, September 11, 2019. [PDF]

Putting Quantum Optics to Work: Quantum Radiometry and Quantum Aberration Correction

Presented at the Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics, CQO-11,Rochester, NY, August 6, 2019. [PDF]

How to Sort OAM States of Light

Presented at International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum, Ottawa, 2019, June 19, 2019. [PDF]

Physics and Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials

Presented at Photonics North, Québec, May 21, 2019. [PDF]

Quantum Nonlinear Optics: New Materials and Interactions

Presented at the Colloquium of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA, April 18, 2019. [PDF]

Physics and Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials

Presented at an IMPRS Seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany, April 4, 2019. [PDF]

Physics and Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials

Photonics West, San Francisco, February 2, 2019. [PDF]

Quantum Nonlinear Optics: New Materials and Interactions

Presented at the Photonics for Quantum Workshop, Rochester Institute of Technology, January 23, 2019. [PDF]

Quantum Radiometry

49th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird Utah, January 10, 2019. [PDF]

Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials: How Light Behaves When the Refractive Index Vanishes

Presented at the Emil Wolf Memorial Workshop, University of Rochester, August 14, 2018. [PDF]

Physics and Applications of Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials

Presented at the SYMPOSIUM FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, July 23, 2018, July 23, 2018. [PDF]

Quantum Key Distribution with Full Laguerre-Gauss Encoding

OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, Orlando, FL, USA, June 26, 2018. [PDF]

Tutorial on Nonlinear Optics

Max-Planck University of Ottawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics Summer School, June 18, 2018. [PDF]

Nonlinear Optical Metastructures

Photonics North, Montreal QC, June 6, 2018. [PDF]

Some new results in nonlinear optics: epsilon-near-zero materials, preventing beam filamentation, and the nature of rogue waves

Presented at the International Conference on Metaphotonics, Hunan University, Changsha, P.R. China, May 29, 2018. [PDF]

Quantum Nonlinear Optics: Nonlinear Optics Meets the Quantum World

Presented at Hunan University, Changsha, P.R. China, May 28, 2018. [PDF]

Paul Corkum and the Photonics Program at the University of Ottawa

Symposium on Recollision Physics, Montebello QC, May 8, 2018. [PDF]

Laser Beam Filamentation: Overview and Recent Results

SPIE Defense + Security Symposium, Orlando FL, USA, April 19, 2018. [PDF]

What’s New in Nonlinear Optics

CERC Seminar , March 25, 2018. [PDF]

What’s New in Nonlinear Optics

Department of Physics, University of Maryland, March 13, 2018. [PDF]

Some New Advances in Slow and Fast Light

Presented at OPTO, Photonics West, San Francisco, USA, January 29, 2018. [PDF]

Generation of Caustics and Rogue Waves from Nonlinearity

PQE-18, Snowbird, Utah, USA, January 8, 2018. [PDF]

Quantum Imaging

New Frontiers in Quantum Imaging Symposium, Glasgow, September 25, 2017. [PDF]

Hanbury Brown and Twiss Interferometry with Twisted Light

Presented at ICOAM17, 4th International Conference on Optical Angular Momentum, Anacapri, Italy,, September 18, 2017. [PDF]

University of Ottawa CERC Program in Quantum Photonics: Seven Great Years

Presented at the CERC Summit, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 17, 2017. [PDF]

Beyond the perturbative description of the nonlinear optical response of highly nonlinear

Presented at the OSA Nonlinear Optics Topical Meeting, July 17, 2017. [PDF]

Weak Values and Measurement of the Photon’s Wavefunction

Presented at Princeton-TAMU Symposium on Quantum Physics and Engineering, Princeton University, June 17, 2017. [PDF]

Nonlinear Optics of Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials Robert W. Boyd

Presented at Foundations of Nonlinear Optics 2017, University of The Bahamas, May 25, 2017. [PDF]

Hanbury Brown and Twiss Interferometry with Twisted Light

Presented at the Banff International Research Station Workshop on Quantum Field Framework for Structured Light Interactions, April 28, 2017. [PDF]

Interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with epsilon-near-zero materials

Presented at the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference, Anaheim, CA, USA, April 11, 2017. [PDF]

Quantum Nonlinear Optics: Nonlinear Optics Meets the Quantum World

Presented at the Technion Symposium Series, Haifa, Israel, March 2, 2017. [PDF]

Quantum Nonlinear Optics: Nonlinear Optics Meets the Quantum World

Presented in the IEEE Photonic Society Distinguished Lecturer Series, Australia, March 1, 2017. [PDF]

Quantum Imaging Quantum Imaging, Structured Light Fields, and Materials and

Presented at the Norgegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway, February 6, 2017. [PDF]

Large Optical Nonlinearity of Indium Tin Oxide in its Epsilon-Near-Zero Spectral Region

Presented at the 47th Winter Colloquium on the Phyics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, USA, January 13, 2017. [PDF]

Quantum Imaging

Presented at the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland Campus, December 12, 2016. [PDF]

Quantum information with structured light

Presented at the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland Campus, December 12, 2016. [PDF]

Quantum Imaging, Structured Light Fields, and Materials and Structures for Quantum Sensing

Presented at the DTRA Quantum Sensing Initiative Workshop, Lorton, VA, December 1, 2016. [PDF]

Quantum Imaging and Self-Action Effects in Nonlinear Optics

Presented at the Nonlinear Optics Lecture Series of the Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society, November 9, 2016. [PDF]

Quantum Imaging (with imaging interpreted broadly)

Presented at the Joint OSA Frontiers in Optics and APS/DLS Laser Science Meeting, October 21, 2016. [PDF]

Nonlinear Optics and Laser Science

Presented at the Joint OSA Frontiers in Optics and APS/DLS Laser Science Meeting, October 20, 2016. [PDF]

Structured Materials and Structured Light for Quantum Photonics

Presented at the Nonlinear Optics Lecture Series of the Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society, October 12, 2016. [PDF]

Filamentation: Historical Perspectives and Recent Results

Presented at COFIL 2016, 6th International Symposium on Filamentation, September 9, 2016. [PDF]

Research in Quantum Photonics

Presented at the Leuchs Division Ringberg Retreat and 2016 MPC Annual Meeting, July 18, 2016. [PDF]

Quantum Imaging and New Photonic Material

Presented at the 23rd Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics, Orthodox Academy of Crete, July 1, 2016. [PDF]

Some Topics in Quantum Photonics

Presented at the Conference on Concepts and Paradoxes in a Quantum Universe, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, ON, June 24, 2016. [PDF]

The Promise of Quantum Nonlinear Optics Structured Light and Strutured Materials for Quantum Photonics

Presented the 2016 CAP Congress, Ottawa ON, June 14, 2016. [PDF]

Advances in Quantum Nonlinear Optics

Presented at Photonics North, Québec City, May 24, 2016. [PDF]

Quantum Imaging

Presented at the Royal Society Meeting on Quantum Technology for the 21st Century, May 9, 2016. [PDF]

Phase-Sensitive Quantum Imaging Using Thermal Light Fields

Presented at CERC Group Meeting, April 20, 2016. [PDF]

New Results in Quantum Photonics

Presented at Canada-Israel Workshop on Photonics Research, University of Ottawa, March 3, 2016. [PDF]

Slow-Light-Enhanced Spectrometers and Photon Drag in Slow-Light Media

Presented at Photonics West OPTO, February 18, 2016. [PDF]

Quantum Properties of Twisted Light

Presented at Photonics West OPTO, February 17, 2016. [PDF]

The Promise of Quantum Imaging

Presented at the International School on the Foundations of Physics, University of Ottawa, February 11, 2016. [PDF]

Slow-Light-Enhanced Spectral Interferometers

Presented at the Innovation and Technology Information Exchange, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, December 10, 2015. [PDF]

High-Capacity, Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution Based on Spatial and Polarization Encoding

Presented at the ONR Quantum Information Science Review, Arlington Virginia, December 9, 2015. [PDF]

High-Capacity, Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution Based on Spatial and Polarization Encoding

Presented at the ONR Quantum Information Science Review, Arlington Virginia, December 9, 2015. [PDF]

New Results in Nanophotonics

Presented at the Nano Ontario Conference, November 5, 2015. [PDF]

Quantum Properties of the Orbital Angular Momentum of Light

Presented at the 600th WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Frontiers of Quantum Optics, Physikzentrum Bad Honned, Germany, October 30, 2015. [PDF]

Research in Quantum Nonlinear Optics

Presented at the Institute of Optics Graduate Seminar, October 22, 2015. [PDF]

Charles Townes: Father of the Field of Photonics

Presented at Frontiers in Optics, San Jose, October 18, 2015. [PDF]

Observation of Optical Polarization Möbius Strips

Presented at ICOAM New York, USA, August 4, 2015. [PDF]

Structured Materials and Structured Light for Photonics

Presented at META’15 New York, USA, August 4, 2015. [PDF]

Charles Townes: Creator of the Discipline of Photonics

Presented at The Charles H. Townes Centennial Celebration Symposium, University of California at Berkeley, August 2, 2015. [PDF]

Unity-Order Intensity-Dependent Change in Refractive Index in Indium-Tin Oxide at its Epsilon-Near-Zero Wavelength

Presented at the OSA Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Optics, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, July 26, 2015. [PDF]

Quantum Walks and Wavepacket Dynamics on a Lattice with Twisted Photons

Presented at Photonics North, Ottawa ON Canada, June 11, 2015. [PDF]

How Do Basic Nonlinear Optical Processes Lead to Atmospheric Lasing?

Presented at CLEO, San Jose, USA, May 11, 2015. [PDF]

Research in Quantum Photonics Robert Boyd

Presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Canada Excellence Research Chairs, University of Waterloo, April 14, 2015. [PDF]

High Capacity Quantum Cryptography Carrying more than One Bit Per Photon

Presented at the Rochester Astronomy Club Meeting, April 3, 2015. [PDF]

High Capacity Quantum Cryptography Carrying more than One Bit Per Photon

Presented to the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) studying “Utility of Quantum Systems for the Air Force”, March 25, 2015. [PDF]

Weak Values and Direct Measurement of the Quantum Wavefunction

Presented at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan,Iran, February 17, 2015. [PDF]

Introduction to Nonlinear Optics

Presented at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran, February 15, 2015. [PDF]

Optical Forces and Fresnel Drag in Atomic Vapor “ Slow-Light” Media

Presented at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran, February 15, 2015. [PDF]

Weak Values and Direct Measurement of the Quantum Wavefunction

Presented at Photonics West, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 11, 2015. [PDF]

Optical Forces and Fresnel Drag in Atomic Vapor “Slow-Light” Media

Presented at Photonics West, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 10, 2015. [PDF]

Optical Forces and Fresnel Drag in Atomic Vapor “Slow-Light” Media

Presented at Trends in Optical Micromanipulation III, Obergurgl, Tyrol, Austria, January 27, 2015. [PDF]

Interaction-Free Ghost Imaging Frédéric Bouchard, Harjaspreet Mand, Ebrahim Karimi,

Presented at the 46th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird Utah, January 8, 2015. [PDF]