Maxwellian Steampunk and the Origins of Maxwell’s Equations
The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, has been a testbed for new ideas in Astronomy and Astrophysics for millennia.
Orion’s Dog: The Serious Science of Sirius
The brightest star in the sky, Sirius, has been a testbed for new ideas in Astronomy and Astrophysics for millennia.
The Birth of Optical Interferometry
The history of optical interferometry has had many twists and turns.
The Many Worlds of the Quantum Beamsplitter
The quantum effects of single photons in beam splitters.
The Doppler Universe
The Doppler effect in astrophysics.
Twenty Years at Light Speed: Photonic Quantum Computing
A twenty year update on optical quantum computing technology.
Twenty Years at Light Speed: Optical Computing
A twenty year update on optical computing technology.
Twenty Years at Light Speed: Fiber Optics and the Future of the Photonic Internet
A twenty year update on optical communication technology.
The Secret Life of Snow: Laser Speckle
Information is in the noise.
Transverse Doppler Effect and Relativistic Time Dilation
Doppler effect at right angles.
The Lens of Gravity: Einstein’s Rings
Rays and caustics of gravitational lenses
Casual Caustics and the Optics of Rays
Caustic envelopes of deflected optical rays.
A Short History of the Photon
The history of Quantum Optics from Einstein to Glauber
Quantum Seeing without Looking?
Quantum seeing in the dark.
A Commotion in the Stars
The history of the Doppler effect in science and medicine.
Snell’s Law
Five separate derivations of Snell’s famous law of refraction
The Iconic Eikonal
The Eikonal Equation of ray optics.
Interference: The History of Optical Interferometry and the Scientists who Tamed Light (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Stories behind the physics of light.
Galileo Unbound 