Ataç Imamoglu
Ataç İmamoğlu ( Atac Imamiglu ; born August 12, 1964 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is a Turkish - American physicist who studies quantum optics , semiconductor physics, and nonlinear optics .
biography
İmamoğlu studied electrical engineering at Ortadoğu Teknik Üniversitesi in Ankara with a bachelor's degree in 1985. He made his master's degree at Stanford University in 1987 , where he worked with Stephen E. Harris in 1991 with a thesis on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and lasers without Inversion PhD. He was one of the co-authors of the publication that launched EIT in 1990. As a post-doctoral student, he was at NTT's research laboratories in Tokyo and at Harvard University . In 1993 he became Assistant Professor , 1997 Associate Professor and 1999 Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara . He has been a professor at ETH Zurich since 2002 . There he is deputy head of the Institute for Quantum Electronics and heads the group for quantum photonics .
It dealt from the 1990s with quantum optical phenomena in solids, as with quantum dots ( quantum dots ) and defects, where he examined in particular the differences between analog atomic systems and a pioneer in quantum optics was of quantum dots. His group demonstrated the first single photon source with quantum dots, the use of photon correlation spectroscopy to study quantum dots, and the Purcell effect on quantum dots. He and his group are currently researching the areas of quantum control of individual spins and mesoscopic spin systems, the experimental implementation of strong coupling between individual photons and the quantum optical investigation of quantum many-body physics. He was the first to propose Bose-Einstein condensates of polaritons , which was used, among other things, in the polariton laser .
Prizes and awards
- since 2012 member of the Academia Europaea
- since 2011 member of the newly founded Science Academy of Turkey ( Bilim Akademisi )
- 2010 Charles Hard Townes Award
- 2009 Quantum Electronics Award of the IEEE
- 2001 TÜBİTAK Prize in Physics
- since 2002 Fellow of the American Physical Society ,
- since 2001 Fellow of the Optical Society of America
- since 2001 member of the Academy of Sciences of Turkey (left November 3, 2011)
- 2001 Wolfgang Paul Prize from the Humboldt Foundation
- 1996 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship
- 1995 Career Award from the National Science Foundation
Fonts
- with Yoshihisa Yamamoto : Mesoscopic Quantum Optics . Wiley 1999.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ SE Harris, JE Field, A. Imamoğlu: Nonlinear optical processes using electromagnetically induced transparency . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 64 , no. 10 , March 5, 1990, pp. 1107–1110 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.64.1107 .
- ↑ Quantum Photonics Group, ETH
- ↑ P. Michler, et al .: A Quantum Dot Single-Photon Turnstile Device . In: Science . 290, No. 5500, December 22, 2000, pp. 2282-2285. doi : 10.1126 / science.290.5500.2282 .
- ^ Quantum Photonics Group: Research. Retrieved January 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Directory of members: Atac Imamoglu. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 10, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | İmamoğlu, Ataç |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Imamiglu, Atac |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Turkish-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Minneapolis , Minnesota |