Robert L. Byer

About

Professor Robert L. Byer is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Chair Professor of Applied Physics and a Professor of Photon Science at Stanford University. His research areas include Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics. As a faculty member at Stanford, he is involved in advancing knowledge and education in applied physics and photon science, contributing to the university's academic and research missions.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Telecommunications
• Operating system
• Physics
• Astronomy

Selected publications

• A cryogenic silicon interferometer for gravitational-wave detection

  Classical and Quantum Gravity · 2020-07-29 · 195 citations

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  The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers by LIGO has opened the era of gravitational wave astronomy, revealing a previously hidden side of the cosmos. To maximize the reach of the existing LIGO observatory facilities, we have designed a new instrument that will have 5 times the range of Advanced LIGO, or greater than 100 times the event rate. Observations with this new instrument will make possible dramatic steps toward understanding the physics of the nearby universe, as…

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• Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

  SoftwareX · 2021 · 131 citations

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• Net Acceleration and Direct Measurement of Attosecond Electron Pulses in a Silicon Dielectric Laser Accelerator

  Physical Review Letters · 2019-12-26 · 95 citations

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  Net acceleration of attosecond-scale electron pulses is critical to the development of on-chip accelerators. We demonstrate a silicon-based laser-driven two-stage accelerator as an injector stage prototype for a Dielectric Laser Accelerator (DLA). The first stage converts a 57-keV (500±100)-fs (FWHM) electron pulse into a pulse train of 700±200 as (FWHM) microbunches. The second stage harnesses the tunability of dual-drive DLA to perform both a net acceleration and a streaking measurement. In th…

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• Gallium Oxide for High‐Power Optical Applications

  Advanced Optical Materials · 2020-01-20 · 57 citations

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  Abstract Gallium oxide (Ga 2 O 3 ) is an emerging wide‐bandgap transparent conductive oxide (TCO) with potential applications for high‐power optical systems. Herein, Ga 2 O 3 fabricated nanostructures are described, which demonstrate high‐power laser induced damage threshold (LIDT). Furthermore, the demonstration of an electron accelerator based on Ga 2 O 3 gratings is reported. These unique Ga 2 O 3 nanostructures provide acceleration gradients exceeding those possible with conventional RF acce…

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• Miniature light-driven nanophotonic electron acceleration and control

  Advances in Optics and Photonics · 2022-10-05 · 34 citations

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  Dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) are fundamentally based on the interaction of photons with free electrons, where energy and momentum conservation are satisfied by mediation of a nanostructure. In this scheme, the photonic nanostructure induces near-fields which transfer energy from the photon to the electron, similar to the inverse-Smith–Purcell effect described in metallic gratings. This, in turn, may provide ground-breaking applications, as it is a technology promising to miniaturize part…

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Recent grants

• The Stanford Advanced Gravitational Wave Detector Research Program

  NSF · $950k · 2009–2012

• The Stanford Advanced Gravitational Wave Detector Research Program

  NSF · $2.5M · 2008–2012

• Stanford Program in Support of LIGO

  NSF · $4.2M · 2011–2014

Frequent coauthors

• J. van den Brand

  210 shared

• E. Chassande–Mottin

  Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie

  163 shared

• J. D. E. Creighton

  159 shared

• B. F. Schutz

  Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

  146 shared

• I. W. Harry

  University of Portsmouth

  145 shared

• B. Willke

  Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics

  145 shared

• B. Allen

  145 shared

• R. L. Ward

  University of Glasgow

  137 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Physics

  Stanford University

  1980

• B.S., Physics

  University of California, Berkeley

  1975

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