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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physics
  • 2004 - OSA Fellows For contributions to the fields of nonclassical radiation and optical super-resolution.

Overview

Gerd Leuchs is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy, as well as Engineering, with a particular focus on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

Their work covers a range of topics including Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Quantum Information and Cryptography, Photonic and Optical Devices, Optical Network Technologies, Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics.

Leuchs has co-authored papers with several frequent collaborators, including L. L. Sánchez-Soto, Elena A. Anashkina, Alexey V. Andrianov, А.А. Сорокин, and Nikolay Kalinin.

Scientific publications by Gerd Leuchs have appeared repeatedly in various venues, with notable frequency in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical review. A/Physical review, A
  • Optics Letters
  • Photonics
  • Nanomaterials

Recent papers include:

  • Compensation-free high-dimensional free-space optical communication using turbulence-resilient vector beams, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Roadmap on quantum light spectroscopy, 2020, Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
  • Properties of bright squeezed vacuum at increasing brightness, 2020, Physical Review Research
  • Vector-light quantum complementarity and the degree of polarization, 2020, Optica
  • Objective compressive quantum process tomography, 2020, Physical review. A/Physical review, A

Leuchs has been recognized with several awards including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018, membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005 for Physics, and designation as an OSA Fellow in 2004 for contributions to nonclassical radiation and optical super-resolution.

Best Publications

  • Sharper Focus for a Radially Polarized Light Beam

    Ralf Dorn;Susanne Quabis;Gerd Leuchs

  • Focusing light to a tighter spot

    Susanne Quabis;Ralf Dorn;M. Eberler;O. Glöckl

  • Colloquium: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox: From concepts to applications

    M. D. Reid;P. D. Drummond;Warwick Bowen;E G Cavalcanti

  • From transverse angular momentum to photonic wheels

    Andrea Aiello;Andrea Aiello;Peter Banzer;Peter Banzer;Peter Banzer;Martin Neugebauer;Martin Neugebauer;Gerd Leuchs;Gerd Leuchs;Gerd Leuchs

  • Generation of Continuous Variable Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement via the Kerr Nonlinearity in an Optical Fiber

    Christine Silberhorn;PK Lam;PK Lam;O Weiss;F Konig

  • High-dimensional intracity quantum cryptography with structured photons

    Alicia Sit;Frédéric Bouchard;Robert Fickler;Jérémie Gagnon-Bischoff

  • Continuous variable quantum cryptography: beating the 3 dB loss limit.

    Christine Silberhorn;TC Ralph;Norbert Lütkenhaus;Gerd Leuchs

  • Quantum information processing and communication: strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe

    Peter Zoller;Peter Zoller;Thomas Beth;D. Binosi;D. Binosi;Rainer Blatt;Rainer Blatt

  • A generator for unique quantum random numbers based on vacuum states

    Christian Gabriel;Christoffer Wittmann;Denis Sych;Ruifang Dong;Ruifang Dong;Ruifang Dong

  • Observation of optical polarization Möbius strips

    Thomas Bauer;Thomas Bauer;Peter Banzer;Peter Banzer;Peter Banzer;Ebrahim Karimi;Sergej Orlov;Sergej Orlov

  • Quantum information with continuous variables of atoms and light

    Nicolas Cerf;Gerd Leuchs;Eugene S. Polzik

  • Polarization squeezing and continuous-variable polarization entanglement

    Natalia Korolkova;Gerd Leuchs;Rodney Loudon;Rodney Loudon;Timothy C. Ralph

  • Naturally phase matched second harmonic generation in a whispering gallery mode resonator

    Josef Furst;Dmitry Strekalov;Dominique Elser;Mikael Lassen

  • High-Dimensional Intra-City Quantum Cryptography with Structured Photons

    Alicia Sit;Frédéric Bouchard;Robert Fickler;Jérémie Gagnon-Bischoff

  • The focus of light - theoretical calculation and experimental tomographic reconstruction

    Susanne Quabis;Ralf Dorn;M. Eberler;O. Glöckl

  • A versatile source of single photons for quantum information processing

    Michael Förtsch;Michael Förtsch;Josef U. Fürst;Josef U. Fürst;Christoffer Wittmann;Christoffer Wittmann;Dmitry Strekalov

  • Transverse Angular Momentum and Geometric Spin Hall Effect of Light

    Andrea Aiello;Norbert Lindlein;Christoph Marquardt;Gerd Leuchs

  • Device Calibration Impacts Security of Quantum Key Distribution

    Nitin Jain;Christoffer Wittmann;Lars Lydersen;Carlos Wiechers

  • 30 years of squeezed light generation

    Ulrik Lund Andersen;Tobias Gehring;Christoph Marquardt;Gerd Leuchs

  • Nonlinear and quantum optics with whispering gallery resonators

    Dmitry V. Strekalov;Christoph Marquardt;Andrey B. Matsko;Harald G. L. Schwefel

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Schmauss
Bernhard Schmauss University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Robert W. Boyd
Robert W. Boyd University of Ottawa
Christine Silberhorn
Christine Silberhorn University of Paderborn
Ulf Peschel
Ulf Peschel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Peter D. Drummond
Peter D. Drummond Swinburne University of Technology
Silke Christiansen
Silke Christiansen Fraunhofer Society
Herbert Walther
Herbert Walther Max Planck Society
Nicolas J. Cerf
Nicolas J. Cerf Université Libre de Bruxelles
Andreas Tünnermann
Andreas Tünnermann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Claude Fabre
Claude Fabre Sorbonne University

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