Duncan G. Steel

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Duncan G. Steel
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
University of North Carolina
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan
HRL Laboratories
Doctoral advisorJames Duderstadt
Notable studentsSteven Cundiff

Duncan G. Steel (born 1951) is an American experimental

Optical Society of America, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He coedited the five-volume series on the Encyclopedia of Modern Optics.[2]

Education

Steel graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with an A.B. in 1972. Graduated from the University of Michigan with a Ph.D. in 1976.[1] Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan, he was a Member of the Technical Staff and Senior Staff Physicist for the Hughes Aircraft Company at the Hughes Research Labs (HRL) in Malibu. There he worked on optical phase conjugation and real time holography. Working with Richard Lind, they demonstrated the first laser with a phase conjugate mirror using degenerate four-wave mixing.[3]

Research

Steel works on nonlinear optical

quantum dots
to create quantum coherence as a new degree of freedom. Some of his publications describe the first demonstration of an optically driven CNOT gate in a solid state device and demonstration of entanglement in semiconductor system. In addition to semiconductor physics, he is also involved in the development and application of advanced laser spectroscopy methodology and other biophysical techniques for the study of protein folding and dynamics.

References

  1. ^ a b University of Michigan (2014). "Faculty Profile: Duncan Steel." http://www.lsa.umich.edu/physics/directory/faculty/ci.steelduncan_ci.detail Archived 2014-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
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  3. ^ a b American Physical Society(2014). " 2010 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids Recipient." http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?first_nm=Duncan&last_nm=Steel&year=2010

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