23 - 28 June, 2024
Stanford University
Stanford, California USA
Events
Stephen Harris
Stanford University
Parametric Down Conversion Over 60 years
Monochromatic light incident onto a phase matched nonlinear crystal results in the generation of signal and idler photons whose sum frequency is equal to that of the pump frequency. These photons have temporal widths that on the short side may be engineered to approach a single optical cycle and on the long side, by using electromagnetically induced transparency, may have widths of several microseconds. As described in this talk, these parametrically generated photons allow nonlinear optical properties at near the single photon level and exhibit intriguing properties such as non-local modulation and non-local dispersion.
About the Speaker
Stephen E. Harris was born in November 1936 in Brooklyn, New York, and received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1959. After a year at Bell Telephone Laboratories, he attended Stanford University where as Professor A.E. Siegman’s second laser student, he received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1963. His research work has been in the fields of lasers, quantum electronics, nonlinear optics, and atomic physics. He was the Director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory (1983-88) and Chairman of the Applied Physics Department (1993-1996). Steve Harris is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013 he was elected as an Honorary member of Optica.
