Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Science Group
Professor Girish Saran Agarwal FRS
Noble Foundation Chair and Regents Professor, Department of Physics, Oklahoma State University
Born in Bareilly,
India, Agarwal obtained his PhD
from the
University of Rochester in 1969.
He served as Director of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad for 10
years and as the Indian National Science Academy’s Albert Einstein Research
Professorship. He has been awarded several prizes, including the Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar Prize in 1982, the Max Born Prize from the Optical Society of America
in 1988, the Physics Prize of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1994, and
the Humboldt Prize in 1997.
He is a Fellow of the
Royal Society,
the American
Physical Society,
the Optical
Society of America,
the
Indian National Science Academy and
Academy of
Sciences, and the Third World
Academy of Sciences.
Girish Agarwal is distinguished for his pioneering work in theoretical quantum optics, particularly the non-classical properties of light and its interaction with atoms. He published seminal papers on the use of phase space and master equations in quantum optics. He was one of the first to recognize that quantum interferences could be used to modify dissipative processes in quantum optics, a key part of current work on "slow light" and developed theoretical tools to address problems in open system dynamics now in use world-wide. He was Director of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad and has nurtured an internationally respected school of quantum optics in India over the past 30 years.
Watch his talk on Quantum Interference between Independent Particles and Generation of Entanglement
