Quantum fluctuations and noise in photodetection: applications in optical trapping and optical micromanipulation (Invited Paper)

Masud Mansuripur (PhD 1981, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University) is Professor and Chair of Optical Data Storage at the Wyant College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson. He is the author of "Introduction to Information Theory" (Prentice-Hall, 1987), "The Physical Principles of Magneto-Optical Recording" (Cambridge University Press, 1995), "Classical Optics and its Applications" (Cambridge University Press, 2002, 2nd edition 2009, Japanese translation 2006 and 2012), "Field, Force, Energy and Momentum in Classical Electrodynamics" (Bentham e-books, 2011, 2nd edition, 2017), and "Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering" (Cognella, 2020). A Fellow of Optica and SPIE, he is the author or co-author of more than 300 technical papers in the areas of optical and macromolecular data storage, magneto-optics, optical materials fabrication and characterization, thin film optics, diffraction theory, and problems associated with radiation pressure and photon momentum.