CAREER: Coherent Optics with Excitions: A Program of Photonics

9722239 Snoke拟议的职业计划结合了现代光学或“光子学”的当代主题的研究和教学。提出的实验研究考察了由于激子长程序引起的光学相位相干的自发出现。激子到自发相干的相变与原子的玻色凝聚完全相似，将在二维和三维，即半导体量子阱和体半导体中进行研究。拟议的教学计划包括创建光子学课程，为学生在光学和生物工程领域日益增长的就业市场做好准备，包括时间分辨光谱和声光调制等技术的培训，以及使各种学生更容易接触现代物理学的入门课程。拟议的职业计划结合了现代光学或“光子学”的当代主题的研究和教学。拟议的研究集中在“激子”的新物理效应上，激子本质上是光学介质中的光子，它们的行为就像它们有质量一样。在适当的实验条件下，这些“重而慢的光子”可以自组织成波长比普通光小数百倍的相干波。拟议的教学计划包括与匹兹堡大学的其他成员合作，创建一个光子学课程，为学生在光学和生物工程领域日益增长的就业市场做好准备，以及使各种学生更容易接触现代物理学的入门课程。＊＊＊

9722239 Snoke The proposed CAREER program combines research and teaching on contemporary topics of modern optics, or "photonics." The proposed experimental research examines the spontaneous appearance of optical phase coherence due to excitonic long-range order. The phase transition of excitons to spontaneous coherence, which is exactly analogous to Bose condensation of atoms, will be studied in two and three dimensions, namely, in semiconductor quantum wells and in bulk semiconductors. The proposed teaching program involves creating a photonics curriculum which prepares students for the growing job market in optics and bioengineering, including tpaining in techniques such as time-resolved spectroscopy and acousto-optic modulation, as well as introductory courses which make modern physics more accessible to students of all kinds. %%% The proposed CAREER program combines research and teaching on contemporary topics of modern optics, or "photonics." The proposed research centers on novel physical effects of "excitons," which are essentially photons in an optical medium which act as though they have mass. Under proper experimental conditions, these "heavy and slow photons" can self-organize into a coherent wave with a wavelength hundreds of times less than ordinary light. The proposed program of teaching involves working with other members of the University of Pittsburgh to create a photonics curriculum which prepares students for the growing job market in optics and bioengineering, as well as introductory courses which make modern physics more accessible to students of all kinds. ***