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Vasily Astratov
Associate Professor |
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
International journal Optics Express, Associate
Editor, 2005-present
OECC 2008 subcommittee Frontiers
in Photonics, deputy chair
CLEO/QELS 2006
and 2007 subcommittee Fundamentals of Metamaterials, Periodic and Random
Media, member and alternate chair
ICTON
2007 and 2008
Special session Microresonators and
Photonic Molecules program committee member
Gordon-type
Workshop on Physics of Microresonators, organizer,
National Science Foundation Review Panel:
Unsolicited Proposals in Photonics/Optics (ECS/EPDT), 2004 and 2006
International
Expert Panel on Priority DFG
Program Photonic Crystals in Germany, 2000-2005
Frequent
Reviewer for Applied Physics Letters,
Advanced Materials, Physical Review
B, IEEE J. of Quantum Electron., Langmuir, et al.
Publications
Journal
Articles (61)
Referred
Conference Proceedings (15)
Patents (8)
Current
Courses
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· Physics 2102: Physics
for Science and Engineering II
Invited
Talks at the Conferences (12)
Invited Seminars (34)
Recent Publications
· Perturbations
of Whispering Gallery Modes by Nanoparticles Embedded in Microcavities
K.R. Hiremath and V.N. Astratov, Opt. Express 16, 5421-5426 (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).
S. Deng, W. Cai, and V.N. Astratov, Opt. Express 12, 6468-6480 (2004).
Highly Cited Publications (Total number of ISI citations is
more than 1500)
· 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 173
· 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 152
· 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 132
· 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 113
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: 115
· 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 81
· 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
46
· 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: 45
· 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 44
· 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 43
Photonic & Sonic Band-Gap Bibliography
Last update March, 2008