Professor of Electrical Engineering at @utexasece (views my own) | Photonics, QCLs, combs, THz, quantum | PhD @MIT | @burghoff.bsky.social

Austin, Texas
Joined June 2009
I finally got Optics Express to correct an annoying mistake in my 11-year-old SWIFTS paper. What a lovely day doi.org/10.1364/OE.620394
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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.
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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
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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…
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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)
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And yes, this is just a short version of the Maxwell-Bloch equations. But I like that you can turn your brain off and make whatever approximations you want. Slow gain medium? L_1 becomes an average, and you get the classic Haus master equations Fast gain medium? Adiabatic away
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