2026 Robert W. Boyd: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	127	625	597	14	14	1320	59777

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Overview

Robert W. Boyd is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada. Their research spans multiple disciplines with primary focus in the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Within these fields, significant subfields of study involve Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, as well as Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Photonic and Optical Devices
Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Quantum optics and atomic interactions
Optical Network Technologies

Robert W. Boyd's recent publications illustrate active engagement in the optics and photonics community. Notable papers include:

"Broadband frequency translation through time refraction in an epsilon-near-zero material," 2020, Nature Communications
"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
"Perspectives on advances in high-capacity, free-space communications using multiplexing of orbital-angular-momentum beams," 2021, APL Photonics
"Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces," 2024, Applied Physics Letters

Frequent coauthors in their research include Orad Reshef, M. Zahirul Alam, Ksenia Dolgaleva, Boris Braverman, and Jeremy Upham. Collaboration with these researchers highlights ongoing partnerships within the fields of optics and photonics.

Regarding publication venues, Robert W. Boyd has contributed extensively to several respected outlets, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Optics Letters
OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF)
ACS Photonics

Best Publications

"Two-Photon" coincidence imaging with a classical source

Ryan S. Bennink;Sean J. Bentley;Robert W. Boyd

1250
Citations
Tunable all-optical delays via Brillouin slow light in an optical fiber.

Yoshitomo Okawachi;Matthew S. Bigelow;Jay E. Sharping;Zhaoming Zhu

1133
Citations
Superluminal and Slow Light Propagation in a Room-Temperature Solid

Matthew S. Bigelow;Nick N. Lepeshkin;Robert W. Boyd

1064
Citations
Large optical nonlinearity of indium tin oxide in its epsilon-near-zero region

M. Zahirul Alam;Israel De Leon;Israel De Leon;Robert W. Boyd;Robert W. Boyd

1034
Citations
Observation of ultraslow light propagation in a ruby crystal at room temperature.

Matthew S. Bigelow;Nick N. Lepeshkin;Robert W. Boyd

946
Citations
Generating optical orbital angular momentum at visible wavelengths using a plasmonic metasurface

Ebrahim Karimi;Sebastian A Schulz;Israel De Leon;Hammam Qassim

843
Citations
Colloquium : Understanding quantum weak values: Basics and applications

Justin Dressel;Justin Dressel;Mehul Malik;Mehul Malik;Filippo M. Miatto;Andrew N. Jordan

735
Citations
Radiometry and the detection of optical radiation

Robert W. Boyd

688
Citations
Quantum correlations in optical angle-orbital angular momentum variables

Jonathan Leach;Barry Jack;Jacqui Romero;Anand K. Jha

682
Citations
Realization of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox Using Momentum- and Position-Entangled Photons from Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion

John C. Howell;Ryan S. Bennink;Sean J. Bentley;R. W. Boyd

619
Citations
Coupled-Resonator-Induced Transparency

David D. Smith;David D. Smith;Hongrok Chang;Hongrok Chang;Kirk A. Fuller;Kirk A. Fuller;A. T. Rosenberger

589
Citations
Noise initiation of stimulated Brillouin scattering

Robert W. Boyd;Kazimierz Rza̧ewski;Paul Narum

568
Citations
Sensitive disk resonator photonic biosensor

Robert W. Boyd;John E. Heebner

566
Citations
High-dimensional quantum cryptography with twisted light

Mohammad Mirhosseini;Omar S Magaña-Loaiza;Malcolm N O’Sullivan;Brandon Rodenburg

533
Citations
Quantum and classical coincidence imaging.

Ryan S. Bennink;Sean J. Bentley;Robert W. Boyd;John C. Howell

526
Citations
Four-wave parametric interactions in a strongly driven two-level system

Robert W. Boyd;Michael G. Raymer;Paul Narum;Donald J. Harter

512
Citations
Efficient separation of the orbital angular momentum eigenstates of light

Mohammad Mirhosseini;Mehul Malik;Mehul Malik;Zhimin Shi;Zhimin Shi;Robert W. Boyd;Robert W. Boyd

503
Citations
The physics of ghost imaging

Jeffrey H. Shapiro;Robert W. Boyd

469
Citations
High-dimensional intracity quantum cryptography with structured photons

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

466
Citations
Nonlinear optical effects in epsilon-near-zero media

Orad Reshef;Israel De Leon;M. Zahirul Alam;Robert W. Boyd;Robert W. Boyd

440
Citations