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Billy Lam

Optics Ph.D. graduated from the University of Rochester

My PhD works

I work in Prof. Chunlei Guo's research group with research primarily focused on the characterization of ultrashort pulses. See Publications below


Research interests: Ultrafast optics, Polarization optics, and Quantum Optics.


Courses taken: Mathematical Methods of Optics & Physics, Radiation and Detectors, Geometrical Optics, Fourier Optics, Quantum Mechanics - Optics, Instrumental Optics, Electromagnetic Waves, Principles of Lasers, Physics and Application of Nanophotonic and Nanomechanical Devices,, Modern Coherence Theory, Introduction to Quantum Optics, Opto-Mechanics, Nonlinear Optics, Optical Properties of Materials, Polarization

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First author publications

  1. Compact vectorial optical field generator using a single phase-only spatial light modulator. Billy Lam, and Chunlei Guo, (2021). Optics Letters 46, 3901-3904.

  2. Direct determination of complex amplitude of arbitrary ultrashort pulses via spectral phase conjugation. Billy Lam, and Chunlei Guo, (2021). New Journal of Physics 23(3), 033047.

  3. Spectrally resolved wedged reversal shearing interferometer. Billy Lam, and Chunlei Guo, (2021). Optics Letters 46, 1796-1799.

  4. Spatial Wavefunction Characterization of Femtosecond Pulses at Single-Photon Level. Billy Lam, Mohamed ElKabbash, Jihua Zhang, and Chunlei Guo, (2020). Research 2020.

  5. High-efficiency non-diffractive generator of arbitrary vectorial optical fields with minimal optical elements. Billy Lam, and Chunlei Guo, (2020). Optics Communications 463, 125443.

  6. Complete characterization of ultrafast light beam with phase-shifting wedged reversal shearing interferometer. Billy Lam, and Chunlei Guo, (2018). Light: Science & Applications 7(1), 30.

  7. Generation of continuously rotating polarization by combining cross-polarizations and its application in surface structuring. Billy Lam, Jihua Zhang, and Chunlei Guo, (2017). Optics letters, 42(15), 2870-2873.

  8. Coauthor

  9. Plasmonic metasurfaces with 42.3% transmission efficiency in the visible. Jihua Zhang, Mohamed ElKabbash, Ran Wei, Subhash C Singh, Billy Lam, Chunlei Guo (2019). Light: Science & Applications, 8(1), 53.

  10. Maskless laser nano-lithography of glass through sequential activation of multi-threshold ablation. Yizhuo He, Jihua Zhang, Subhash Singh, Erik Garcell, Anatoliy Y Vorobyev, Billy Lam, Zhibing Zhan, Jianjun Yang, and Chunlei Guo (2019). Applied Physics Letters, 114(13), 133107.

  11. Femtosecond laser-induced herringbone patterns. Garcell, E.M., Lam, B. and Guo, C., (2018). Applied Physics A, 124(6), p.405.

  12. Real-time in situ study of femtosecond-laser-induced periodic structures on metals by linear and nonlinear optics. Zhang, J., He, Y., Lam, B. and Guo, C., (2017). Optics express, 25(17), pp.20323-20331.

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