Michael G. Raymer
Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Ph.D 1979, Boulder, CO.
At UO Since:
1988
Field of Specialization:
Quantum and classical optical phenomena
Research
Interests:
Quantum information, quantum optics, quantum control, semiconductor optical physics, nonlinear optics
Office:
Willamette Hall, Rm 276
Phone: 541-346-4785
Lab: Willamette Hall,
Rm 242/272:
Lab Phone: 541-346-4726
Fax: 541-346-4315
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Postal Address: 1274 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1274
Shipping Address: 1371 E. 13th Ave.,
Willamette Hall, Rm. 120, Eugene, OR 97403
Michael G. Raymer  received his PhD from the University of Colorado in 1979. After a tenure on the faculty at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, he moved to the University of Oregon in 1988, where he later served as founding Director of the Oregon Center for Optics. His research focuses on the quantum mechanics of light and its interaction with atoms, molecules, and semiconductors, with applications in nonlinear optics, communications technology, and quantum information. In 1993, his group reported the first instance of experimental quantum-state tomography of light. He has held visiting appointments in Colorado, Germany, and Norway. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America. He has served on the Committee on AMO Science, National Research Council, and on the Executive Committee of the Division of Laser Science, APS. 

He recently developed a new university course and textbook for nonscience students called The Physics Behind the Internet that covers the physical basis for information technology, at a level suitable for students with little or no physics background. The course teaches, at a conceptual level, the basics of information, communication, atomic physics, semiconductor device physics, and optical physics and technology. In support of this course, he authored a textbook, The Silicon Web: The Physics Behind the Internet.
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