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Vasily Astratov Associate
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Microcavities
and Mesoscopic Systems Lab
Research Areas
· Novel structures and materials: microcavities and photonic crystals, coupled resonator
optical waveguides, opals.
· Quantum optics: light-matter interaction, optical coupling between high-Q cavities, localization of light,
polaritons.
· Optoelectronics applications: integrated optical circuits, delay lines, switches
and spectrometers on a chip.
Education
· Ph.D., Physics, A. F.
Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the
· Diploma in Physics,
corresponds to B.Sc.&M.Sc. in Physics, Dep. of Physics, St.-Petersburg State University,
Professional Experience
· Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Optical Science,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(2007-present)
· Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Optical Science,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(2002-2007)
· Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield,
· Senior Member of
Research Staff (1997) and Member of Research Staff (1981-1997)
Leader
of the group pioneered studies of synthetic opals (1993-1997)
Department
of Solid State Optics, A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical
Institute,
· Docent (part time), Department of
Industrial Electronics, North-West State
Technical University,
Honors and Awards
· Senior Visiting EPSRC Fellow Award in the
· Award of Royal Society and
Russian Academy of Sciences, Program of Exchange Visits, Oct.-Dec. 1996
· Award in the Annual
Competition of the Division of Solid
State Physics, A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute 1993
· First Prize in the Annual Competition, A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical
Institute 1985
Service
· Associate
Editor, Optics Express,
2005-present
· Referee, NASA Postdoctoral Program, 2008
· Conference session
co-organizer (with Svetlana Boriskina), ICTON 2009 Special session
Microresonators and Photonic Molecules
· Deputy chair, OECC 2008
subcommittee Frontiers in Photonics
· Organizer and Editor, Focus Issue of
Optics Experess devoted Physics and Applications of Microresonators, 2007
· Organizer, Gordon-type
Workshop on Physics of Microresonators, Charlotte, 2007
· Program committee member and alternate
chair, CLEO/QELS 2006
and 2007 subcommittee Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic and Random
Media
· Program committee member, ICTON
2007 and 2008
Special session Microresonators and
Photonic Molecules
· Panelist, NSF: Unsolicited Proposals in Photonics/Optics (ECS/EPDT), 2004-2006
and CAREER 2008
· Panelist, DFG: Priority
DFG Program Photonic Crystals in Germany, 2000-2005
· Frequent Reviewer, Applied Physics Letters, Advanced
Materials, Physical Review B, IEEE J.
of Quantum Electron., Langmuir,
et al.
· Dep./University:
Optics Ph.D. Program Committee, 2002-present; Search Committee, 2004-05
· Research
Grants (>$600K in 3 years)
· Journal
Articles (67)
· Referred
Conference Proceedings (17)
· Patents
(9)
· Invited
Talks at Conferences (14)
· Presentations
at Conferences (32)
· Invited
Seminars (37)
Courses Taught
· PHYS 6141: Quantum
Theory I
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· PHYS 2102: Physics
for Science and Engineering II
Recent Publications
S. Yang and V.N. Astratov,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 261111 (2008). Selected for the Virtual
Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 18, Issue 2 (2008).
· Perturbations
of Whispering Gallery Modes by Nanoparticles Embedded in Microcavities
K.R. Hiremath and V.N.
Astratov, Opt. Express 16, 5421-5426 (2008). Selected for the Virtual Journal for
Biomedical Optics 3, Issue 5 (2008).
· Editorial: Introduction
to the Focus Issue of Optics Express on Physics and Applications of
Microresonators
V.N. Astratov, Opt. Express 15, 17171 (2007). Selected for the Virtual Journal for
Biomedical Optics 3, Issue 1 (2008).
· Percolation
of Light through Whispering Gallery Modes in 3D Lattices of Coupled
Microspheres
V.N. Astratov and S.P.
Ashili, Focus Issue on Physics and Applications of Microresonators, Opt. Express 15, 17351-17361 (2007). Selected for the Virtual
Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology 17, Issue 10 (2008).
· Wispering
Gallery Resonances in Semiconductor Micropillars
V.N. Astratov, S. Yang, S.
Lam, B.D. Jones, D. Sanvitto, D.M. Whittaker, A.M. Fox, M.S. Skolnick, A. Tahraoui, P. W. Fry, and M.
Hopkinson, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 171115 (2007)
A.M. Kapitonov and V.N.
Astratov, Opt. Lett. 32, 409-411 (2007).
· The Effects of
Inter-Cavity Separation on Optical Coupling in Dielectric Bispheres
S.P. Ashili, V.N. Astratov, and E.C.H. Sykes, Opt.
Express 14,
9460-9466 (2006).
· Optical
Coupling at a Distance Between Detuned Spherical Cavities
A.V. Kanaev, V.N.
Astratov, and W. Cai, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 111111 (2006).
V.N. Astratov, J.P. Franchak, and S.P.
Ashili, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 5508-5510 (2004). ISI times cited 46
S. Deng, W. Cai, and V.N. Astratov, Opt.
Express
12, 6468-6480 (2004). ISI
times cited 28
Selected Highly Cited Publications (Total
number of ISI citations is about 2000)
· Continuous
Wave Observation of Massive Polariton Redistribution by Stimulated Scattering
in Semiconductor Microcavities
R.M. Stevenson, V.N. Astratov,
M.S. Skolnick, D.M. Whittaker, M. Emam-Ismail, A.I. Tartakovskii, P.G.
Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, and J.S. Roberts, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3680-3683 (2000). ISI
times cited 198
· Existence of a photonic
pseudogap for visible light in synthetic opals
Y.A.
Vlasov, V.N. Astratov, O.Z. Karimov, A.A. Kaplyanskii, V.N. Bogomolov,
and A.V. Prokofiev, Phys. Rev. B 55, R13357-13360 (1997), ISI times cited 169
· Manifestation
of Intrinsic Defects in Optical Properties of Self-Organized Opal Photonic
Crystal
Y.A. Vlasov, V.N. Astratov, A.V. Baryshev, A.A.
Kaplyanskii, O.Z. Karimov, and M.F. Limonov, Phys. Rev. E 61,
5784-5793 (2000). ISI times cited 156
V.N.
Astratov, V.N. Bogomolov, A.A.
Kaplyanskii, A.V. Prokofiev, L.A. Samoilovich, S.M. Samoilovich, and Y.A.
Vlasov, Nuovo Cimento D 17, 1349-1354 (1995), ISI times cited: 147
· Enhancement
of optical gain of semiconductors embedded in three-dimensional photonic
crystals
Y.A. Vlasov, K. Luterova, I.
Pelant, B. Honerlage, and V.N. Astratov, Appl. Phys. Lett., v.71,
No.12, pp.1616-1618 (1997), ISI times
cited 135
· Photonic Band Structure
Effects in the Reflectivity of Periodically Patterned Waveguides
V.N.
Astratov, D.M. Whittaker, I.S.
Culshaw, R.M. Stevenson, M.S. Skolnick, T.F. Krauss, and R.M. DeLaRue, Phys. Rev. B 60, R16255-16258 (1999), ISI
times cited 101
· Interplay of Order
and Disorder in the Optical Properties of Opal Photonic Crystals
V.N. Astratov, A.M. Adawi, S. Fricker, M.S. Skolnick,
D.M. Whittaker, and P.N. Pusey, Phys.
Rev. B 66, art.165215 (2002). ISI times cited 57
· Resonant Coupling of
Near-Infrared Radiation to Photonic Band Structure Waveguides
V.N. Astratov, I.S. Culshaw, R.M. Stevenson, D.M. Whittaker, M.S.
Skolnick, T.F. Krauss, and R.M. DeLaRue, Resonant Coupling of Near-Infrared
Radiation to Photonic Band Structure Waveguides, J. of Lightwave Technology,
v.17, 2050-2057 (1999), ISI times cited
57
· Heavy Photon
Dispersions in Photonic Crystal Waveguides
V.N. Astratov, R.M. Stevenson, I.S.
Culshaw, D.M. Whittaker, M.S. Skolnick, T.F. Krauss, and R.M. De La Rue, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 178-180 (2000), ISI
times cited 53
· Photonic Band Gaps
in 3D Ordered FCC Silica Matrices
V.N. Astratov, Y.A. Vlasov, O.Z. Karimov, A.A. Kaplyanskii,
Yu.G. Musikin, N.A. Bert, V.N. Bogomolov, and A.V. Prokofiev, Physics Letters A 222, 349-353 (1996). ISI
times cited: 50
Photonic & Sonic Band-Gap Bibliography
Last update October, 2008