Allan Boardman

Professor Allan Boardman is well-known both in the UK and globally for his work on surface plasmons and guided wave optics, especially nonlinear waves, solitons, magneto-optics and negative refracting metamaterials. He is a leading theorist and numerical analyst in these areas, especially magneto-optics and metamaterials, and was recently cited by the Optical Society of America for his seminal contributions and exemplary leadership and service to the optics community. Because of this he has been unanimously approved by OSA Board of Editors to serve as a Topical Editor for JOSA B.

Allan Boardman is Professor of Applied Physics at the University of Salford and holds a Doctor of Science degree from the University of Durham UK, founded by Oliver Cromwell. He is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the UK Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. He recently co-Chaired the major UK photonics meeting called Photon06. He is co-chair of the SPIE Photonic Metamaterials conference series to be held in San Diego and has organized other conferences, including being a Director of a number of pivotal NATO Advanced Study Institutes.

He is the newly elected chair of the Optics and Photonics Division of the UK Institute of Physics and is Vice-President of the United Kingdom Consortium for Optics and Photonics (UKCPO). He is also a Board member of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division of the European Physical Society. He is the UK voice on the new European strategy program called OPERA [Optics and Photonics in the European Research Area] 2015.

He receives many invitations to speak internationally: for example, a plenary invitation in August 2005 to talk about “Left-handed Materials in a Complex World” at the SPIE Warsaw meeting. His recent research activities focus upon nonlinear and/or gyrotropic surface polaritons on negatively refracting media, optical vortices, solitons in nonlinear magneto-optics, nonlinear electromagnetic modeling, nonlinear microwave magnetics, complex microwave materials, magneto-photonic band gap phenomena, dissipative solitons and electromagnetic modeling for mm-wave devices, magneto-optic devices and EMC problems.

ome relevant publications

*Pioneering book "Electromagnetic Surface Modes" [Boardman(Editor and major contributor on surface plasmons)John Wiley (1982)]
*A. D. Boardman and K. Marinov, “Electromagnetic energy in a dispersive metamaterial”, Phys. Rev. B 73, 165110 (2006).
*A. D. Boardman and K. Marinov, “Nonradiating and radiating configurations driven by left-handed metamaterials”, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23(3) 543-552 (2006).
*A. D. Boardman, N. King, Y. Rapoport, and L. Velasco, “Gyrotropic impact upon negatively refracting surfaces”, New J. Phys. 7, 191 (2005).
*A. D. Boardman, N. King, and L. Velasco, “Negative refraction in perspective”, Electromagnetics 25, 1 (2005).
*A. D. Boardman, P. Egan, L. Velasco, and N. King, “Control of planar nonlinear guided waves and spatial solitons with a left-handed medium”, J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Optics 6, S1 (2004).