Cody Leary

Assistant Professor of Physics

Department/Affiliation: Physics
Phone: 330-263-2274
Office Address: 108 Taylor Hall
Email: cleary@wooster.edu
Web Site: Cody Leary

B.S., University of Puget Sound (Physics and Mathematics) 2003
M.S., Ph.D. University of Oregon 2004, 2010
Dissertation title: "Measurement and control of transverse photonic degrees of freedom via parity sorting and spin-orbit interaction"

Mohammad Saif Ahmad, Parity-based Measurement and Control of the Spatial Wave Function of Photons, 2012
Margaret Raabe, Manipulation of a Photon's Wave Function in Optical Fibers, 2012

Dashiell L. Vitullo, M. G. Raymer, Cody C. Leary, Siddharth Ramachandran, “Photonic Spin-Orbit Interaction in Few-Mode-Optical Fiber,” in the Proceedings of the Frontiers in Optics: Laser Science XXVII Conference, San Jose, CA (2011).
Yoonshik Kang, Kiyoung Cho, Jaewoo Noh, Dash Vitullo, Cody Leary, and Michael G. Raymer, "Remote preparation of complex spatial state of single photons and verification by two-photon imaging experiment" Opt. Express 18, 1217 (2010).
C. C. Leary, M. G. Raymer, and S. J. Van Enk, "Spin and Orbital Rotation of Electrons and Photons via Spin-Orbit Interaction" Phys. Rev. A (Rapid Communications) 80, 061804 (2009).
C. C. Leary, L. A. Baumgardner, and M. G. Raymer, "Stable mode sorting by two-dimensional parity of photonic transverse spatial states" Opt. Express 17, 4 (2009).
C. C. Leary, D. Reeb, and M. G. Raymer, "Self-spin-controlled rotation of spatial states of a Dirac electron in a cylindrical potential via spin-orbit interaction" New J. Phys. 10, 103022 (2008).

Parity-based measurement and control of transverse quantum states of light, bimodal two-photon interference, quantum entanglement, spin-orbit interaction of electrons and photons in cylindrical geometries.