Ataç İmamoğlu

Ataç İmamoğlu ( Atac Imamiglu; born August 12, 1964 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a Turkish- American physicist, quantum optics, semiconductor physics and nonlinear optics is concerned.

İmamoğlu studied electrical engineering at the Ortadogu Teknik Üniversitesi in Ankara with a bachelor 's degree in 1985. He made 1987 his master's degree at Stanford University, where he no 1991 Stephen E. Harris with a thesis on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT ) and laser inversion doctorate. He was one of the co-authors of the publication, was introduced in the TY 1990. As a post - graduate student he was at the research laboratories of NTT in Tokyo and at Harvard University. He was an Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in 1997 and Professor in 1999 at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993. Since 2002 he is professor at the ETH Zurich. There he is deputy head of the Institute of Quantum Electronics and leads the group for Quantenfotonik.

It dealt from the 1990s with quantum optical phenomena in solids, as in quantum dots ( quantum dots ) and defects, where he particularly examined the differences between analog atomic systems and a pioneer in quantum optics of quantum dots was. His group demonstrated the first single-photon source with quantum dots, the use of photon correlation spectroscopy for the study of quantum dots, and the Purcell effect in quantum dots.

In 2009 he received the Quantum Electronics Award of the IEEE, 2001 TÜBİTAK Turkish Prize in Physics in 2010 and the Charles Hard Townes Award. He received the 2001 Wolfgang Paul Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Packard Fellow in 1996 and received a 1995 Career Award from the National Science Foundation.

İmamoğlu is a Fellow of the American Physical Society ( 2002), the Optical Society of America and the National Turkish Academy of Sciences ( 2002). He has the Turkish and American citizenship.

Writings

• Yoshihisa Yamamoto with: Mesoscopic Quantum Optics. Wiley 1999.