Happy birthday Bob!!

Congrats to Theng-Loo!

My last #photonics Boyd NLO Research Group paper as lead is finally out, and it's an Editor's Suggestion at Physical Review Letters! We use zero-index waveguides to study NLO phase-matching. I started this project in Mar '14 & you finally get to see it thanks to Justin Gagnon! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

It was a delight to participate in the Minister's visit and to share with her some of the many scientific successes that have sprung from collaborations in our Max Planck - uOttawa Centre for Extreme and Quantum Photonics!

To what extent can free space be compressed using nonlocal flat optics ('spaceplates')? We answer this question in a new paper published today in #OSA_Optica, work led by Kunal Shastri Cornell ECE Cornell Engineering, and with Orad Reshef, PhD, R. Boyd, & Jeff Lundeen. 1/4 opg.optica.org/optica/fulltex…

It is my pleasure to share that, by the grace of Almighty, I successfully defended my PhD thesis on January 12, 2023. I would like to express my gratitude to the Almighty, my parents, sister and her family, all relatives and friends, and my thesis supervi…lnkd.in/gT89vWhu

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Postdoctoral Fellow - Metamaterial Integrated Photonics (RO) at National Research Council Canada / Conseil national de recherches Canada! lnkd.in/gKvCkSuk

We won't have a large presence at SPIE Photonics West this year, but check out this talk by our PhD student Saleem Iqbal if you have the chance!

Using polymer, some tape (yes tape!) and a bit of metal, we fabricate a metamaterial for high-performance THz spectral filtering. This work, in collaboration with @BoydNLOLAb and Iridian, was published today in Photonics Research Optica Publishing Group opg.optica.org/prj/fulltext.c…

Our paper with John Sipe was recently published as an Editors' Suggestion in Physical Review A! We analytically model cooperative bright and dark modes in bilayer plasmonic metasurfaces, and their selective excitation through coherent perfect absorption go.aps.org/41yrEYQ

Congrats to Bob for receiving the Ives Medal / Quinn Prize, the highest award presented by Optica!

Our latest paper was just published in Nanophotonics! We experimentally demonstrate all-optical beam-steering through time refraction using a plasmonic gradient metasurface on an ITO substrate!

Congrats to our newly minted PhD Sam Lemieux for successfully defending his thesis!

See our recent letter in Physical Review A in which we experimentally generate polarization-entangled photons through SPDC pumped by a source lacking both spatial and temporal coherence. Congrats to Girish and Cheng for their hard work paying off! journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/1…

As part of Canada's National Quantum Strategy, we're looking forward to future advances in quantum-enhanced sensing and imaging from the QuEnSI team! Congrats to the other awardees!

When the legend of nonlinear optics and distinguished physicist, Professor Robert Boyd (my PDF supervisor during 2012-2014), come to your office for a scientific chat, but you suddenly remember and applaud his recent accomplishment. Congrats on the #OpticaAward, Prof. Boyd!