Raymond Chiao

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Raymond Y. Chiao
Raymond Chiao outside his UC Merced Lab
Born	(1940-10-09) October 9, 1940 (age 83) British Hong Kong
Nationality	American
Alma mater	MIT Princeton University
Known for	Measuring the tunneling time, observation of Berry's topological phase
Awards	Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics (2006) Einstein Prize for Laser Science (awarded at Lasers '93)
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	UC Merced Berkeley MIT
Thesis	Brillouin scattering and coherent phonon generation (1965)
Doctoral advisor	Charles Hard Townes
Doctoral students	Paul Kwiat Aephraim M. Steinberg

Raymond Y. Chiao is an American physicist best known for his experimental work in quantum optics. He is currently an emeritus faculty member at the University of California, Merced physics department, where he is conducting research on gravitational radiation in collaboration with Prof. Jay Sharping.