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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Quantum Optics |
| Keywords | novel lasers, quantum entanglement, vector beams and laser beam shaping, orbital angular momentum, structured light |
| Honours and awards | 2024: Clarivate highly cited list 2024: Honorary Professor Zhejiang University 2024: TWAS award for Physics 2022: Sang Soo Lee award from Optica and the Korean Optical Society 2020: Fellow of the SAIP 2020: Georg Forster Prize and Fellowship 2020: South African Institute of Physics (SAIP) Gold Medal |
Current contact address
| Country | South Africa |
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| City | Johannesburg |
| Institution | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Institute | Department of Physics |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Jan Gerrit Korvink | Institut für Mikrostrukturtechnik (IMT), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 03/06/2020 |
Programme(s)
| 2019 | Georg Forster Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Forbes has pioneered the field of structured light. His seminal contributions include tailoring light at the source with novel lasers, and new forms of quantum entangled states with light. His work has found widespread application, realising an all-digital toolbox for unravelling light, new approaches to fast and secure optical communication networks, and an intelligent quantum microscope for imaging light sensitive structures. During his stay in Germany, he will continue to work on the exploration of the interplay between structured matter and structured waves. |