Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at @utexasece (views my own) | Photonics, QCLs, combs, THz, quantum | PhD @MIT, AP @ ND | @burghoff.bsky.social
Austin, Texas
Joined June 2009
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Oh I shd add: Deisseroth’s work was (say it w me!) supported with public funding through federal science agencies incl NIH, NSF, and DARPA. And I daresay few political deciders in 2004 would have been excited to put algal proteins in HEK cells or neurons. Scientists knew, though.
Since when does DARPA have a lab? I thought they just had an office building in Arlington that is annoying to get into
quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/…
There is zero reason to read Maxwell when you can learn what he did EFFICIENTLY. His papers lack modern math language—it's like insisting you must read Plato in Ancient Greek
Jim Fujimoto at MIT (perennial Nobel contender) gives a problem in grad nonlinear optics about this
The second quantum revolution is here and Longhorn researchers are meeting the moment. 🤘
From solving specialized problems in quantum computing and developing advanced sensors to training the next generation of quantum researchers, the Texas Quantum Institute is helping shape the future of the field: utex.as/4AJaI3E
Last year I did a long theory paper on the propagation of ultrafast pulses through gain media
I feel like I buried the lede a little in pursuit of generality. One of my favorite results is just "vanilla" gain saturation. The operator order matters a lot!
doi.org/10.1002/lpor.2025005…
For instance, did you know that the lineshape function applies to both the gain saturation and the field? I had no idea, but it does!
This formalism is nice because it shoves all the microscopic dynamics into the lineshape (L_2) and gain recovery dynamics (L_1)