Professor Robert Boyd
- Visiting Professor (School of Physics & Astronomy)
Publications
2019
Black, A. N., Giese, E., Braverman, B., Zollo, N., Barnett, S. M. and Boyd, R. W. (2019) Quantum, nonlocal aberration cancellation. Physical Review Letters, 123, 143603. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.143603)
2018
Moreau, P.-A. , Morris, P. A., Toninelli, E., Gregory, T., Aspden, R. S., Spalding, G., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2018) Experimental limits of ghost diffraction: Popper’s thought experiment. Scientific Reports, 8, 13183. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31429-y) (PMID:30181599) (PMCID:PMC6123420)
Larocque, H., Kaminer, I., Grillo, V., Leuchs, G., Padgett, M. J. , Boyd, R. W., Segev, M. and Karimi, E. (2018) ‘Twisted’ electrons. Contemporary Physics, 59(2), pp. 126-144. (doi: 10.1080/00107514.2017.1418046)
Agarwal, G. et al. (2018) Light, the universe and everything – 12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers. Journal of Modern Optics, 65(11), pp. 1261-1308. (doi: 10.1080/09500340.2018.1454525)
2017
Safari, A., Fickler, R., Padgett, M. J. and Boyd, R. W. (2017) Generation of caustics and rogue waves from nonlinear instability. Physical Review Letters, 119(20), 203901. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.203901)
Grillo, V. et al. (2017) Observation of nanoscale magnetic fields using twisted electron beams. Nature Communications, 8, 689. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00829-5) (PMID:28947803) (PMCID:PMC5613010)
Padgett, M. J. and Boyd, R. W. (2017) An introduction to ghost imaging: quantum and classical. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 375(2099), 20160233. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0233)
Grillo, V. et al. (2017) Measuring the orbital angular momentum spectrum of an electron beam. Nature Communications, 8, 15536. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms15536) (PMID:28537248) (PMCID:PMC5458084)
2016
Larocque, H., Bouchard, F., Grillo, V., Sit, A., Frabboni, S., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Padgett, M. J. , Boyd, R. W. and Karimi, E. (2016) Nondestructive measurement of orbital angular momentum for an electron beam. Physical Review Letters, 117(15), 154801. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.154801) (PMID:27768337)
2015
Miatto, F. M., Piche, K., Brougham, T. and Boyd, R. W. (2015) Recovering full coherence in a qubit by measuring half of its environment. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 92(6), 062331. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.92.062331)
Ren, Y. et al. (2015) Turbulence compensation of an orbital angular momentum and polarization-multiplexed link using a data-carrying beacon on a separate wavelength. Optics Letters, 40(10), pp. 2249-2252. (doi: 10.1364/OL.40.002249) (PMID:26393711)
Xie, G. et al. (2015) Phase correction for a distorted orbital angular momentum beam using a Zernike polynomials-based stochastic-parallel-gradient-descent algorithm. Optics Letters, 40(7), pp. 1197-1200. (doi: 10.1364/OL.40.001197)
Padgett, M. J. , Miatto, F. M., Lavery, M. P.J. , Zeilinger, A. and Boyd, R. W. (2015) Divergence of an orbital-angular-momentum-carrying beam upon propagation. New Journal of Physics, 17(2), 023011. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/2/023011)
Morris, P. A., Aspden, R. S., Bell, J. E.C., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2015) Imaging with a small number of photons. Nature Communications, 6, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms6913) (PMID:25557090) (PMCID:PMC4354036)
2014
Ren, Y. et al. (2014) Adaptive-optics-based simultaneous pre- and post-turbulence compensation of multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams in a bidirectional free-space optical link. Optica, 1(6), pp. 376-382. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.1.000376)
Wisniewski-Barker, E., Gibson, G. M. , Franke-Arnold, S. , Shi, Z., Narum, P., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2014) Experimental investigation of the transient dynamics of slow light in ruby. New Journal of Physics, 16, p. 123054. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/12/123054)
Boyd, R. W., Shi, Z. and De Leon, I. (2014) The third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility of gold. Optics Communications, 326, pp. 74-79. (doi: 10.1016/j.optcom.2014.03.005)
Bolduc, E., Leach, J., Miatto, F. M., Leuchs, G. and Boyd, R. W. (2014) Fair sampling perspective on an apparent violation of duality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(34), pp. 12337-12341. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1400106111) (PMID:25114237) (PMCID:PMC4151752)
Qassim, H., Miatto, F. M., Torres, J. P., Padgett, M. J. , Karimi, E. and Boyd, R. W. (2014) Limitations to the determination of a Laguerre–Gauss spectrum via projective, phase-flattening measurement. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 31(6), A20-A23. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.31.000A20)
Wisniewski-Barker, E., Gibson, G. , Franke-Arnold, S. , Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2014) Mechanical Faraday effect for orbital angular momentum-carrying beams. Optics Express, 22(10), pp. 11690-11697. (doi: 10.1364/OE.22.011690)
Dicaire, M.-C. N., Upham, J., De Leon, I., Schulz, S. A. and Boyd, R. W. (2014) Group delay measurement of fiber Bragg grating resonances in transmission: Fourier transform interferometry versus Hilbert transform. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 31(5), p. 1006. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.31.001006)
Wisniewski-Barker, E., Gibson, G. , Franke-Arnold, S. , Shi, Z., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2014) Reply to Comment on ‘Evidence of slow-light effects from rotary drag of structured beams’. New Journal of Physics, 16(3), 038002. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/3/038002)
Conti, C. and Boyd, R. (2014) Nonlinear optomechanical pressure. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 89, 033834. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.89.033834)
Karimi, E., Giovannini, D., Bolduc, E., Bent, N., Miatto, F. M., Padgett, M. J. and Boyd, R. W. (2014) Exploring the quantum nature of the radial degree of freedom of a photon via Hong-Ou-Mandel interference. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 89(1), 013829. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.89.013829)
Malik, M., Mirhosseini, M., Lavery, M.P.J. , Leach, J., Padgett, M.J. and Boyd, R.W. (2014) Direct measurement of a 27-dimensional orbital-angular-momentum state vector. Nature Communications, 5, p. 3115. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms4115)
Aspden, R. S., Tasca, D. S., Forbes, A., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2014) Experimental demonstration of Klyshko’s advanced-wave picture using a coincidence-count based, camera-enabled imaging system. Journal of Modern Optics, 61(7), pp. 547-551. (doi: 10.1080/09500340.2014.899645)
2013
Tasca, D.S., Aspden, R.S., Morris, P.A., Anderson, G., Boyd, R.W. and Padgett, M.J. (2013) The influence of non-imaging detector design on heralded ghost-imaging and ghost-diffraction examined using a triggered ICCD came. Optics Express, 21(25), pp. 30460-30473. (doi: 10.1364/OE.21.030460)
2012
Padgett, M. J. , Wisniewski-Barker, E., Gibson, G. , Boyd, R. W., Franke-Arnold, S. , Galvez, E., Andrews, D., Gluckstad, J. and Soskin, M. (2012) Mechanically Induced Image Rotation: Analogy of the Faraday Effect for Orbital Angular Momentum. In: Complex Light and Optical Forces VI, San Francisco, CA, USA, 21-26 Jan 2012, p. 827403. ISBN 9780819489173 (doi: 10.1117/12.909915)
Tasca, D. S., Edgar, M. P., Izdebski, F., Warburton, R. E., Leach, J., Agnew, M., Buller, G. S., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2012) High-dimensional spatial entanglement observed with an electron multiplying CCD camera. In: Electro-Optical Remote Sensing, Photonic Technologies, and Applications VI, Edinburgh, UK, 24-26 Sep 2012, 85421T. (doi: 10.1117/12.981414)
2011
Boyd, R.W., Rodenburg, B., Mirhosseini, M. and Barnett, S.M. (2011) Influence of atmospheric turbulence on the propagation of quantum states of light using plane-wave encoding. Optics Express, 19(19), pp. 18310-18317. (doi: 10.1364/OE.19.018310)
2010
Leach, J., Jack, B., Romero, J., Jha, A. K., Yao, A. M., Franke-Arnold, S. , Ireland, D. G. , Boyd, R. W., Barnett, S. M. and Padgett, M. J. (2010) Quantum correlations in optical angle-orbital angular momentum variables. Science, 329(5992), pp. 662-665. (doi: 10.1126/science.1190523) (PMID:20689014)
Jha, A. K., Leach, J., Jack, B., Franke-Arnold, S. , Barnett, S. M. , Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2010) Angular two-photon interference and angular two-qubit states. Physical Review Letters, 104(1), Art. 010501. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.010501)
Boyd, R. W., Leach, J., Jack, B., Romero, J., Jha, A. K., Yao, A. M., Franke-Arnold, S. , Ireland, D. G. , Barnett, S. M. and Padgett, M. J. (2010) New twist on light beams for quantum information science. Optics and Photonics News, 21(12), p. 48. (doi: 10.1364/OPN.21.12.000048)
Articles
Black, A. N., Giese, E., Braverman, B., Zollo, N., Barnett, S. M. and Boyd, R. W. (2019) Quantum, nonlocal aberration cancellation. Physical Review Letters, 123, 143603. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.143603)
Moreau, P.-A. , Morris, P. A., Toninelli, E., Gregory, T., Aspden, R. S., Spalding, G., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2018) Experimental limits of ghost diffraction: Popper’s thought experiment. Scientific Reports, 8, 13183. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-31429-y) (PMID:30181599) (PMCID:PMC6123420)
Larocque, H., Kaminer, I., Grillo, V., Leuchs, G., Padgett, M. J. , Boyd, R. W., Segev, M. and Karimi, E. (2018) ‘Twisted’ electrons. Contemporary Physics, 59(2), pp. 126-144. (doi: 10.1080/00107514.2017.1418046)
Agarwal, G. et al. (2018) Light, the universe and everything – 12 Herculean tasks for quantum cowboys and black diamond skiers. Journal of Modern Optics, 65(11), pp. 1261-1308. (doi: 10.1080/09500340.2018.1454525)
Safari, A., Fickler, R., Padgett, M. J. and Boyd, R. W. (2017) Generation of caustics and rogue waves from nonlinear instability. Physical Review Letters, 119(20), 203901. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.203901)
Grillo, V. et al. (2017) Observation of nanoscale magnetic fields using twisted electron beams. Nature Communications, 8, 689. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00829-5) (PMID:28947803) (PMCID:PMC5613010)
Padgett, M. J. and Boyd, R. W. (2017) An introduction to ghost imaging: quantum and classical. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 375(2099), 20160233. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2016.0233)
Grillo, V. et al. (2017) Measuring the orbital angular momentum spectrum of an electron beam. Nature Communications, 8, 15536. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms15536) (PMID:28537248) (PMCID:PMC5458084)
Larocque, H., Bouchard, F., Grillo, V., Sit, A., Frabboni, S., Dunin-Borkowski, R. E., Padgett, M. J. , Boyd, R. W. and Karimi, E. (2016) Nondestructive measurement of orbital angular momentum for an electron beam. Physical Review Letters, 117(15), 154801. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.154801) (PMID:27768337)
Miatto, F. M., Piche, K., Brougham, T. and Boyd, R. W. (2015) Recovering full coherence in a qubit by measuring half of its environment. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 92(6), 062331. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.92.062331)
Ren, Y. et al. (2015) Turbulence compensation of an orbital angular momentum and polarization-multiplexed link using a data-carrying beacon on a separate wavelength. Optics Letters, 40(10), pp. 2249-2252. (doi: 10.1364/OL.40.002249) (PMID:26393711)
Xie, G. et al. (2015) Phase correction for a distorted orbital angular momentum beam using a Zernike polynomials-based stochastic-parallel-gradient-descent algorithm. Optics Letters, 40(7), pp. 1197-1200. (doi: 10.1364/OL.40.001197)
Padgett, M. J. , Miatto, F. M., Lavery, M. P.J. , Zeilinger, A. and Boyd, R. W. (2015) Divergence of an orbital-angular-momentum-carrying beam upon propagation. New Journal of Physics, 17(2), 023011. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/2/023011)
Morris, P. A., Aspden, R. S., Bell, J. E.C., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2015) Imaging with a small number of photons. Nature Communications, 6, (doi: 10.1038/ncomms6913) (PMID:25557090) (PMCID:PMC4354036)
Ren, Y. et al. (2014) Adaptive-optics-based simultaneous pre- and post-turbulence compensation of multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams in a bidirectional free-space optical link. Optica, 1(6), pp. 376-382. (doi: 10.1364/OPTICA.1.000376)
Wisniewski-Barker, E., Gibson, G. M. , Franke-Arnold, S. , Shi, Z., Narum, P., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2014) Experimental investigation of the transient dynamics of slow light in ruby. New Journal of Physics, 16, p. 123054. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/12/123054)
Boyd, R. W., Shi, Z. and De Leon, I. (2014) The third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility of gold. Optics Communications, 326, pp. 74-79. (doi: 10.1016/j.optcom.2014.03.005)
Bolduc, E., Leach, J., Miatto, F. M., Leuchs, G. and Boyd, R. W. (2014) Fair sampling perspective on an apparent violation of duality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(34), pp. 12337-12341. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1400106111) (PMID:25114237) (PMCID:PMC4151752)
Qassim, H., Miatto, F. M., Torres, J. P., Padgett, M. J. , Karimi, E. and Boyd, R. W. (2014) Limitations to the determination of a Laguerre–Gauss spectrum via projective, phase-flattening measurement. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 31(6), A20-A23. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.31.000A20)
Wisniewski-Barker, E., Gibson, G. , Franke-Arnold, S. , Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2014) Mechanical Faraday effect for orbital angular momentum-carrying beams. Optics Express, 22(10), pp. 11690-11697. (doi: 10.1364/OE.22.011690)
Dicaire, M.-C. N., Upham, J., De Leon, I., Schulz, S. A. and Boyd, R. W. (2014) Group delay measurement of fiber Bragg grating resonances in transmission: Fourier transform interferometry versus Hilbert transform. Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, 31(5), p. 1006. (doi: 10.1364/JOSAB.31.001006)
Wisniewski-Barker, E., Gibson, G. , Franke-Arnold, S. , Shi, Z., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2014) Reply to Comment on ‘Evidence of slow-light effects from rotary drag of structured beams’. New Journal of Physics, 16(3), 038002. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/3/038002)
Conti, C. and Boyd, R. (2014) Nonlinear optomechanical pressure. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 89, 033834. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.89.033834)
Karimi, E., Giovannini, D., Bolduc, E., Bent, N., Miatto, F. M., Padgett, M. J. and Boyd, R. W. (2014) Exploring the quantum nature of the radial degree of freedom of a photon via Hong-Ou-Mandel interference. Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 89(1), 013829. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.89.013829)
Malik, M., Mirhosseini, M., Lavery, M.P.J. , Leach, J., Padgett, M.J. and Boyd, R.W. (2014) Direct measurement of a 27-dimensional orbital-angular-momentum state vector. Nature Communications, 5, p. 3115. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms4115)
Aspden, R. S., Tasca, D. S., Forbes, A., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2014) Experimental demonstration of Klyshko’s advanced-wave picture using a coincidence-count based, camera-enabled imaging system. Journal of Modern Optics, 61(7), pp. 547-551. (doi: 10.1080/09500340.2014.899645)
Tasca, D.S., Aspden, R.S., Morris, P.A., Anderson, G., Boyd, R.W. and Padgett, M.J. (2013) The influence of non-imaging detector design on heralded ghost-imaging and ghost-diffraction examined using a triggered ICCD came. Optics Express, 21(25), pp. 30460-30473. (doi: 10.1364/OE.21.030460)
Boyd, R.W., Rodenburg, B., Mirhosseini, M. and Barnett, S.M. (2011) Influence of atmospheric turbulence on the propagation of quantum states of light using plane-wave encoding. Optics Express, 19(19), pp. 18310-18317. (doi: 10.1364/OE.19.018310)
Leach, J., Jack, B., Romero, J., Jha, A. K., Yao, A. M., Franke-Arnold, S. , Ireland, D. G. , Boyd, R. W., Barnett, S. M. and Padgett, M. J. (2010) Quantum correlations in optical angle-orbital angular momentum variables. Science, 329(5992), pp. 662-665. (doi: 10.1126/science.1190523) (PMID:20689014)
Jha, A. K., Leach, J., Jack, B., Franke-Arnold, S. , Barnett, S. M. , Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2010) Angular two-photon interference and angular two-qubit states. Physical Review Letters, 104(1), Art. 010501. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.010501)
Boyd, R. W., Leach, J., Jack, B., Romero, J., Jha, A. K., Yao, A. M., Franke-Arnold, S. , Ireland, D. G. , Barnett, S. M. and Padgett, M. J. (2010) New twist on light beams for quantum information science. Optics and Photonics News, 21(12), p. 48. (doi: 10.1364/OPN.21.12.000048)
Conference Proceedings
Padgett, M. J. , Wisniewski-Barker, E., Gibson, G. , Boyd, R. W., Franke-Arnold, S. , Galvez, E., Andrews, D., Gluckstad, J. and Soskin, M. (2012) Mechanically Induced Image Rotation: Analogy of the Faraday Effect for Orbital Angular Momentum. In: Complex Light and Optical Forces VI, San Francisco, CA, USA, 21-26 Jan 2012, p. 827403. ISBN 9780819489173 (doi: 10.1117/12.909915)
Tasca, D. S., Edgar, M. P., Izdebski, F., Warburton, R. E., Leach, J., Agnew, M., Buller, G. S., Boyd, R. W. and Padgett, M. J. (2012) High-dimensional spatial entanglement observed with an electron multiplying CCD camera. In: Electro-Optical Remote Sensing, Photonic Technologies, and Applications VI, Edinburgh, UK, 24-26 Sep 2012, 85421T. (doi: 10.1117/12.981414)
Research datasets
2018
Moreau, P.-A., Morris, P. A., Toninelli, E., Gregory, T., Aspden, R., Spalding, G., Boyd, R. and Padgett, M. (2018) Experimental Limits of Ghost Diffraction: Popper’s Thought Experiment. [Data Collection]
2016
MORRIS, P., Aspden, R. S., Bell, J. E.C., Boyd, R. and Padgett, M. (2016) Imaging with a small number of photons. [Data Collection]