Nominator's project description
| The advances of electronics, including micro- and nonoelectronics, in the last century have led to revolutionary changes in informaton science and technology with remarkable consequences for our society. Similar changes are anticipated in the coming century for photonics where photons- i.e. light - replace electrons. To this research field, Prof. Atac Imamoglu from the University of California at Santa Barbara has made outstanding scientific contributions. He belongs to the leading scientists in the areas of lasers physics, quantum optics, semiconductor opto-electronics, non-linear optics and quantum computation, as well as many other areas of photonics. Some keywords of his remarkable scientific achievemtens are: quantum information processing, single photon light sources on the basis of semiconductor quantum boxes, lasers without threshold, photonic bandgap crystals, giant Kerr-nonlinearities, Purcell-effect at single quantum boxes. All of his achievements have enriched our knowledge in photonics and basic physics and they have opened new possibilities for information science and technology.
At the 4. Physics Institute at Stuttgart University he plans to continiue his research on quantum information processing in close interaction with many other colleagues working in the field of photonics. This implies, for instance, the investigation of semiconductor quantum boxes embedded in confined phtonic nanostructures. Other topics include quantum computation with single phton sources on the basis of quantum box single phton turnstiles. Finally, extreme dispersions and nonlinearities shall be inversitgated for the case of electromagnetically induced transparency on the basis of a cold gas of atoms. All these topics are of high current interest and open new perspectives for optical information processing. |
