Education
Shapiro received the South.B., South.M., Electrical Engineer, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1970, respectively.
physicist university professor
Shapiro received the South.B., South.M., Electrical Engineer, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967, 1968, 1969, and 1970, respectively.
He made seminal contributions to understanding the fundamental quantum limits on communications, generation, detection, and application of quantum squeezed state, ghost imaging, and quantum information science. He invented the microchannel-plate spatial light modulator with Cardinal Warde. From 1970 to 1973, he was on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University.
From 1973 to 1985, he was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 1985, he was promoted to Professor of Electrical Engineering.
He became the Julius A. Stratton Professor in 1999. From 1989 to 1999, Shapiro served as the Associate Department Head of Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
He was appointed Director of the Laboratory of Electronics in 2001. He is also a director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s Optical and Quantum Communications Group.
Shapiro"s research focuses on utilizing quantum mechanical effects to develop metrology tools and applications whose performance greatly exceeds what can be realized with conventional, classical-physics systems
In particular, his group investigated the quantum limits on optical communications and derived the capacity of quantum channels. His group also demonstrated high-performance entanglement sources and took advantage of these sources to implement quantum key distribution systems Shapiro"s group pioneered in developing quantum illumination, which enables use of entanglement in lossy and noisy environments.