Allan Boardman
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Professor Allan Boardman is well-known both in the UK and globally for his work on surface plasmons
and guided wave optics, especially nonlinear waves, solitons, magneto-optics
and negative refracting metamaterials. He is a leading theorist and numerical analyst in these areas, especially magneto-optics and metamaterials, and was recently cited by the Optical Society of America
for his seminal contributions and exemplary leadership and service to the optics community. Because of this he has been unanimously approved by OSA
Board of Editors to serve as a Topical Editor for JOSA B.
Allan Boardman is Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Salford
and holds a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Durham UK. He is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics
and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
. He co-Chaired the major UK photonics meeting called Photon06. He is co-chair of the SPIE Photonic Metamaterials conference series to be held in San Diego and has organized other conferences, including being a Director of a number of pivotal NATO Advanced Study Institutes.
He is the chair of the Optics and Photonics Division of the UK Institute of Physics
and is Vice-President of the United Kingdom Consortium for Optics and Photonics (UKCPO). He is also a Board member of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society
. He is the UK voice on the new European strategy program called OPERA [Optics and Photonics in the European Research Area] 2015.
He receives many invitations to speak internationally: for example, a plenary invitation in August 2005 to talk about “Left-handed Materials in a Complex World” at the SPIE Warsaw meeting. His recent research activities focus upon nonlinear and/or gyrotropic surface polaritons on negatively refracting media, optical vortices, solitons in nonlinear magneto-optics, nonlinear electromagnetic modeling, nonlinear microwave magnetics, complex microwave materials, magneto-photonic band gap phenomena, dissipative solitons and electromagnetic modeling for mm-wave devices, magneto-optic devices and EMC problems.
Surface plasmon resonance
The excitation of surface plasmons by light is denoted as a surface plasmon resonance for planar surfaces or localized surface plasmon resonance for nanometer-sized metallic structures....
and guided wave optics, especially nonlinear waves, solitons, magneto-optics
Magneto-optic effect
A magneto-optic effect is any one of a number of phenomena in which an electromagnetic wave propagates through a medium that has been altered by the presence of a quasistatic magnetic field...
and negative refracting metamaterials. He is a leading theorist and numerical analyst in these areas, especially magneto-optics and metamaterials, and was recently cited by the Optical Society of America
Optical Society of America
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for his seminal contributions and exemplary leadership and service to the optics community. Because of this he has been unanimously approved by OSA
Osa
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Board of Editors to serve as a Topical Editor for JOSA B.
Allan Boardman is Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Salford
University of Salford
The University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class...
and holds a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Durham UK. He is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....
and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications is the UK's chartered professional body for mathematicians and one of the UK's learned societies for mathematics ....
. He co-Chaired the major UK photonics meeting called Photon06. He is co-chair of the SPIE Photonic Metamaterials conference series to be held in San Diego and has organized other conferences, including being a Director of a number of pivotal NATO Advanced Study Institutes.
He is the chair of the Optics and Photonics Division of the UK Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics
The Institute of Physics is a scientific charity devoted to increasing the practice, understanding and application of physics. It has a worldwide membership of around 40,000....
and is Vice-President of the United Kingdom Consortium for Optics and Photonics (UKCPO). He is also a Board member of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society
European Physical Society
The European Physical Society is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe. Formally established in 1968, its membership includes the national physical societies of 41 countries, and some 3200 individual members. The Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft,...
. He is the UK voice on the new European strategy program called OPERA [Optics and Photonics in the European Research Area] 2015.
He receives many invitations to speak internationally: for example, a plenary invitation in August 2005 to talk about “Left-handed Materials in a Complex World” at the SPIE Warsaw meeting. His recent research activities focus upon nonlinear and/or gyrotropic surface polaritons on negatively refracting media, optical vortices, solitons in nonlinear magneto-optics, nonlinear electromagnetic modeling, nonlinear microwave magnetics, complex microwave materials, magneto-photonic band gap phenomena, dissipative solitons and electromagnetic modeling for mm-wave devices, magneto-optic devices and EMC problems.
Some relevant publications
- Pioneering book "Electromagnetic Surface Modes" [Boardman(Editor and major contributor on surface plasmons)John Wiley (1982)]
- A. D. Boardman and K. Marinov, “Electromagnetic energy in a dispersive metamaterial”, Phys. Rev. B 73, 165110 (2006).
- A. D. Boardman and K. Marinov, “Nonradiating and radiating configurations driven by left-handed metamaterials”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23(3) 543-552 (2006).
- A. D. Boardman, N. King, Y. Rapoport, and L. Velasco, “Gyrotropic impact upon negatively refracting surfaces”, New J. Phys. 7, 191 (2005).
- A. D. Boardman, N. King, and L. Velasco, “Negative refraction in perspective”, Electromagnetics 25, 1 (2005).
- A. D. Boardman, P. Egan, L. Velasco, and N. King, “Control of planar nonlinear guided waves and spatial solitons with a left-handed medium”, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Optics 6, S1 (2004).
External links
- Physics Department at the University of Salford.