Robert W. Boyd was born in Buffalo, New York. He received the B.S. degree in physics from MIT and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley. His Ph.D. thesis was supervised by Charles Townes and involves the use of nonlinear optical techniques in infrared detection for astronomy. He joined the faculty of University of Rochester in 1977 and in 2010 became Professor of Physics and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa. His research involves studies of optical physics and of nonlinear optics. Professor Boyd has written two books, co-edited two anthologies, published over 500 research papers (≈46,000 citations, Google h-index 107), and been awarded ten patents. He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy and the Royal Society of Canada. He is a past winner of the Townes Award, Schawlow Prize and a Humboldt Research Award. He is a fellow of IEEE, OSA, APS and SPIE.
研究方向
Quantum optics and atomic interactionsPhotonic and Optical DevicesAdvanced Fiber Laser TechnologiesOrbital Angular Momentum in OpticsQuantum Information and Cryptography
