1980s Publications

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  1. Influence of collisional dephasing processes on superfluorescence
    Jeffery J. Maki, Michelle S. Malcuit, M. G. Raymer, Robert W. Boyd, and P. D. Drummond
    Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 40 , pp. 5135 -5142  (1989). View PDF
  2. Energy transfer between laser beams propagating through an atomic vapor
    M. T. Gruneisen, K. R. MacDonald, Alexander L. Gaeta, Robert W. Boyd, and Donald J. Harter
    Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 40 , pp. 3464 -3467  (1989). View PDF
  3. Observation of instabilities of laser beams counterpropagating through a Brillouin medium
    Alexander L. Gaeta, Mark D. Skeldon, Robert W. Boyd, and Paul Narum
    Journal of the Optical Society of America B Vol. 6, Issue 9 , pp. 1709 -1713  (1989). View PDF | View Online
  4. Polarization properties of optical phase conjugation by two-photon resonant degenerate four-wave mixing
    Martti Kauranen, Daniel J. Gauthier, Michelle S. Malcuit, and Robert W. Boyd
    Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 40 , pp. 1908 -1917  (1989). View PDF
  5. Polarization Properties of Phase Conjugation by Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing in Saturable Absorbers
    Robert W. Boyd, Daniel J. Gauthier, Martti Kauranen, Michelle S. Malcuit, and W. R. Tompkin
    Proc. SPIE, 1060 , pp. 58 -65  (1989). View PDF | View Online
  6. Delay-time statistics of cooperative emission in the presence of homogeneous line broadening
    K. Rzazewski, ,
    Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 39 , pp. 5785 -5790  (1989). View PDF
  7. Polarization properties of phase conjugation by degenerate four-wave mixing in a medium of rigidly held dye molecules
    W. R. Tompkin, Michelle S. Malcuit, Robert W. Boyd, and John E. Sipe
    Journal of the Optical Society of America B Vol. 6, Issue 4 , pp. 757 -760  (1989). View PDF | View Online
  8. Vector Phase Conjugation And Beam Combining By Multiwave Optical Mixing
    Robert W. Boyd, K. R. MacDonald, and Michelle S. Malcuit
    Proc. SPIE 1000 , pp. 69 -80  (1989). View PDF | View Online
  9. Phase-conjugate Fizeau interferometer
    Daniel J. Gauthier, Robert W. Boyd, Robert K. Jungquist, Jerold B. Lisson, and Laurie Lyon Voci
    OPTICS LETTERS Volume: 14 Issue: 6 , pp. 323 -325  (1989). View PDF | View Online
  10. Transverse-Mode Structure of a Phase-Conjugate Oscillator Based on Brillouin-Enhanced Four-Wave Mixing
    Mark D. Skeldon and Robert W. Boyd
    IEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS Volume: 25 Issue: 3 , pp. 588 -594  (1989). View PDF | View Online
  11. Spatial evolution of laser beam profiles in an SBS amplifier
    Edward J. Miller, Mark D. Skeldon, and Robert W. Boyd
    Applied Optics Vol. 28, Issue 1 , pp. 92 -96  (1989). View PDF | View Online
  12. Polarization instabilities of counterpropagating laser beams in sodium vapor
    Daniel J. Gauthier, Michelle S. Malcuit, and Robert W. Boyd
    Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 61 , pp. 1827 -1830  (1988). View PDF
  13. Quantum theory of Rabi sideband generation by forward four-wave mixing
    Girish S. Agarwal and Robert W. Boyd
    Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 38 , pp. 4019 -4027  (1988). View PDF
  14. Quantum noise in phase conjugation
    Alexander L. Gaeta,
    Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 60 , pp. 2618 -2621  (1988). View PDF
  15. Instabilities and chaos in the polarizations of counterpropagating light fields
    Alexander L. Gaeta, Robert W. Boyd, J. R. Ackerhalt, and Peter W. Milonni
    Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 58 , pp. 2432 -2435  (1987). View PDF
  16. Non-frequency-shifted, high-fidelity phase conjugation with aberrated pump waves by Brillouin-enhanced four-wave mixing
    Mark D. Skeldon, Paul Narum, and Robert W. Boyd
    Opt. Lett., Vol. 12 , pp. 343 -345  (1987). View PDF
  17. Observation of deterministic chaos in a phase-conjugate mirror
    Daniel J. Gauthier, Paul Narum, and Robert W. Boyd
    Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 58 , pp. 1640 -1643  (1987). View PDF
  18. Competition between amplified spontaneous emission and the four-wave-mixing process
    Robert W. Boyd, Michelle S. Malcuit, Daniel J. Gauthier, and K. Rzazewski
    Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 35 , pp. 1648 -1658  (1987). View PDF
  19. Nonlinear-optical interactions in fluorescein-doped boric acid glass
    M. A. Kramer, W. R. Tompkin, and Robert W. Boyd
    Phys. Rev. A 34 , pp. 2026 -2031  (1986).
  20. Transient sum-frequency generation in resonant three-level media
    J. A. Benda, Daniel J. Gauthier, and Robert W. Boyd
    Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 32 , pp. 3461 -3466  (1985). View PDF
  21. Suppression of amplified spontaneous emission by the four-wave mixing process
    Michelle S. Malcuit, Daniel J. Gauthier, and Robert W. Boyd
    Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 55 , pp. 1086 -1089  (1985). View PDF
  22. Laser intensity for maximum yield in multiphoton ionization
    L. Allen, Robert W. Boyd, Jerzy Krasinski, Michelle S. Malcuit, and C. R. Stroud, Jr
    Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 54 , pp. 309 -312  (1985). View PDF
  23. NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF FLUORESCEIN IN BORIC—ACID GLASS
    M. A. Kramer, W. R. Tompkin, Jerzy Krasinski, and Robert W. Boyd
    Journal of Luminescence,vol.31 , pp. 789 -791  (1984). View PDF | View Online
  24. Origin of spectral holes in pump-probe studies of homogeneously broadened lines
    Robert W. Boyd and S. Mukamel
    Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 29 , pp. 1973 -1983  (1984). View PDF
  25. Saturation and inverse-saturation absorption line shapes in alexandrite
    Michelle S. Malcuit, Robert W. Boyd, Lloyd W. Hillman, Jerzy Krasinski, and C. R. Stroud, Jr
    JOSAB, Vol 1, Number 1 , pp. 73 -75  (1984). View PDF
  26. Four-wave mixing resonantly enhanced by ac-Stark-split levels in self-trapped filaments of light
    Donald J. Harter and Robert W. Boyd
    Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 29 , pp. 739 -748  (1984). View PDF
  27. Observation of Higher Order Dynamical States of a Homogeneously Broadened Laser
    Lloyd W. Hillman, Jerzy Krasinski, Robert W. Boyd, and C. R. Stroud, Jr
    Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 52 , pp. 1605 -1608  (1984). View PDF
  28. LASER CHARACTERISTICS OF KCL:02
    Stephen R. Wilk, Robert W. Boyd, and Kenneth J. Teegarden
    Optics Communications,vol.47 , p. 404  (1983). View PDF | View Online
  29. Observation of a Spectral Hole Due to Population Oscillations in a Homogeneously Broadened Optical Absorption Line
    Lloyd W. Hillman, Robert W. Boyd, Jerzy Krasinski, and C. R. Stroud, Jr
    Optics Communications, Vol. 45, No. 6 , pp. 416 -419  (1983). View PDF
  30. Observation ofresonantly enhanced sum-frequency generation involving sodium Rydberg states
    Daniel J. Gauthier, Jerzy Krasinski, and Robert W. Boyd
    Optics Letters , p. 211  (1983). View PDF | View Online
  31. QUENCHING OF MOLECULAR FLUORESCENCE NEAR THE SURFACE OF A SEMICONDUCTOR
    T.Hayashi, T.G.Castner, and Robert W. Boyd
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol.94 , p. 461  (1983). View PDF | View Online
  32. Conical emission due to four-wave mixing enhanced by the ac Starkeffect in self-trapped filaments of light
    Donald J. Harter and Robert W. Boyd
    Optics Letters, vol.7 , p. 491  (1982). View PDF | View Online
  33. Natural modes for the analysis ofoptical bistability and laser instability
    Lloyd W. Hillman, Robert W. Boyd, and C. R. Stroud, Jr
    Optics Letters,vol.7 , p. 426  (1982). View PDF | View Online
  34. Large dc-Electric-Field-Induced Nonlinear Optical Susceptibility of Hydrogen Atomic Vapors
    Robert W. Boyd and Lian-Qin Xiang
    IEEE J.Quantum Electron, vol.18 , p. 1242  (1982). View PDF | View Online
  35. Electrical Pumping of Color Center Lasers
    Robert W. Boyd, Michelle S. Malcuit, and Kenneth J. Teegarden
    IEEE J.Quantum Electron, vol.18 , p. 1202  (1982). View PDF | View Online
  36. PHOTON BUNCHING AND THE PHOTON-NOISE-LIMITED PERFORMANCE OF INFRARED DETECTORS
    Robert W. Boyd
    Infrared Physics,vol 22 , p. 157  (1982). View PDF | View Online
  37. Four-wave parametric interactions in a strongly driven two-level system
    Robert W. Boyd, M. G. Raymer, Paul Narum, and Donald J. Harter
    Physical Review A, Vol. 24, No. 1 , pp. 411 -423  (1981). View PDF
  38. Four-Wave Parametric Amplification of Rabi Sidebands in Sodium
    Donald J. Harter, Paul Narum, M. G. Raymer, and Robert W. Boyd
    Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 46 , pp. 1192 -1195  (1981). View PDF
  39. Three-photon absorption in Nd-doped yttrium aluminum garnet
    M. A. Kramer and Robert W. Boyd
    Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 23 , pp. 986 -991  (1981). View PDF
  40. Three-photon absorption in Nd-doped yttrium aluminum garnet
    M. A. Kramer and Robert W. Boyd
    Optical Properties of Materials, vol.23 , p. 986  (1981). View PDF | View Online
  41. Nearly Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Enhanced by the ac Stark Effect
    Donald J. Harter and Robert W. Boyd
    IEEE J. Quantum ELectron, QE-16 , p. 1126  (1980). View PDF | View Online
  42. Lithium heat-pipe arc lamp
    Robert W. Boyd and Donald J. Harter
    Applied Optics, vol 19 , p. 2660  (1980). View Online
  43. Analysis of the pressure, density, and velocity distributions in a spectroscopic heat- pipe oven and the resulting limitations on device performance
    Robert W. Boyd and Jack G. Dodd
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol.51 , p. 6058  (1980). View PDF | View Online
  44. Intuitive explanation of the phase anomaly of focused light beams
    Robert W. Boyd
    J. Opt. Soc. Am, vol. 70 , p. 877  (1980). View PDF | View Online
  45. Disk-shaped heat-pipe oven used for lithium excited-state lifetime measurements
    Robert W. Boyd, Jack G. Dodd, Jerzy Krasinski, and C. R. Stroud, Jr
    Optics Letters, vol.5 , p. 117  (1980). View PDF | View Online