Joseph H. Eberly is the Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics and Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester

University of Rochester

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Education

Eberly earned his bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

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 and his Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University

Stanford University

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Work

Professor Eberly's research interests focus on: cavity QED; quantum information and control of non-classical entanglement (including sudden death and sudden birth of entanglement); response of atoms to high-intensity optical pulses; coherent control theory of optical interactions, including soliton and adiabaton propagation. In 1995, with funding from the National Science Foundation, he founded the Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering (RTC). The Center, under Eberly's directorship, provides postdoctoral training in frontier areas of optical science and technology to selected young Ph.D. theorists from U.S. universities.
His recent work on the electron and therefore positron localization in external fields may lead to the ultimate solution of the realistic interstellar space travel using electromagnetically controlled positronic propulsion .

Awards and recognition

Eberly is recognized as an icon in the field of theoretical quantum optics, and has been the recipient of the Charles Hard Townes

Charles Hard Townes

Charles Hard Townes is an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator. Townes is known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel...

 Award, the Smoluchowski Medal and the Senior Humboldt Award. He was the president of the Optical Society of America in 2007. For his outstanding contributions in the theory of electron localization in atoms
and molecules he was awarded in 2010 the Frederic Ives Medal, the highest award of the Optical Society of America.

Publications

Eberly has published more than 300 scientific journal articles and other scientific papers. He has co-written two textbooks and has contributed chapters to many more.

• L. Allen and J.H. Eberly, Optical Resonance and Two-Level Atoms. 1987. ISBN 978-0486655338.
• P. Milonni and J.H. Eberly, Lasers. 1988. ISBN 978-0471627319.
• Sudden Death of Entanglement by Ting Yu and J. H. Eberly, Science 30 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5914, pp. 598 - 601, DOI: 10.1126/science.1167343

External links

• Past Presidents of the Optical Society of America

See also

• Optical Society of America#Past Presidents of the OSA