{"id":5,"date":"2015-12-16T16:54:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/wright\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-06-05T13:58:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T13:58:43","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emeritus at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optics.arizona.edu\/\">College of Optical Sciences<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arizona.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Arizona<\/a>, 1980; Ph. D. Heriot-Watt University, 1983; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpq.mpg.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics<\/a>, Munich 1983-1985; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.optics.arizona.edu\/\">College of Optical Sciences<\/a>, University of Arizona, 1985-2025.<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ultrashort pulse propagation in gases<\/li>\n<li>Penrose and Zel&#8217;dovich effects in optics &amp; acoustics<\/li>\n<li>Chiral soliton model for a quantum time crystal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Other AMO Related Work<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Prof. Brian P. Anderson\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Experimental Bose-Einstein condensation<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Rolf Binder\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Theory of the optical properties of semiconductors<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Poul Jessen\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Experimental AMO physics, laser cooling, optical lattices<\/li>\n<li>Prof. R. Jason Jones\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Ultrashort lasers, precision metrology<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Miroslav Kolesik &#8211; Theoretical &amp; computational optical physics<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Jerry V. Moloney &#8211; Theoretical &amp; computational optical physics<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Dalziel Wilson &#8211; Quantum Optomechanics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emeritus at the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, 1980; Ph. D. Heriot-Watt University, 1983; Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Munich 1983-1985; College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1985-2025. Research Interests Ultrashort pulse propagation in gases Penrose and Zel&#8217;dovich effects in optics &amp; acoustics Chiral soliton model for a quantum time crystal Other AMO Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/wright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/wright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/wright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/wright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/wright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/wright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/wright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/wright\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}