Alexander Szameit
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Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Jena |
Known for | Topological photonics Quantum optics nonlinear optics |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physicist |
Institutions | University of Rostock |
Alexander Szameit (born 10 January 1979) is a German physicist working in experimental solid-state optics.[1]
Biography
[edit]Szameit studied physics at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg and the University of Jena, graduating in 2004.[1] Following that, from 2004 to 2007 he pursued a doctoral degree at the University of Jena, graduating with the highest honor of "summa cum laude".[2] From 2009 he worked at the Technion in Haifa as a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Mordechai Segev.[3] In 2011 he returned to the University of Jena as a junior professor and acquired his habilitation in 2015.[4] Since 2016, he is a professor at the University of Rostock, where he leads the Experimental Solid-state Optics group.[1] Since 2022, Szameit also serves on the board of the German Research Foundation's collaborative research center 1477 "LiMatI"[5]
Research
[edit]Szameit's work focuses on the investigation of optical wave phenomena in discrete systems.[6][7] As experimental platforms, he utilizes artificial structured media such as arrays of coupled optical waveguides directly inscribed into glass chips by ultrafast laser pulses,[7] or synthetic mesh lattices implemented by time-multiplexed loops of optical fibers.[8] Using these techniques, his research[6] covers a broad range of fields ranging from topological photonics,[9] non-Hermitian[8] and PT-symmetric[10] optical systems, integrated quantum photonics[11] and nonlinear optics[12] to synthetic dimensions[13] and the emulation of relativistic physics[14] in on-chip light-based settings.
Awards and honors
[edit]- 2009: Doctoral prize of the DPG (German Physical Society)[15]
- 2014: Adolph Lomb Medal of the Optical Society[16]
- 2015: Rudolf Kaiser award for experimental physics[17]
- 2017: Alfried Krupp prize of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation[2]
- 2020: Tomassoni award[18]
- 2024: Elected as fellow of Optica[19]
Selected publications
[edit]- Rechtsman, Mikael C., Julia M. Zeuner, Yonatan Plotnik, Yaakov Lumer, Daniel Podolsky, Felix Dreisow, Stefan Nolte, Mordechai Segev, and Alexander Szameit. "Photonic Floquet topological insulators." Nature 496, no. 7444 (2013): 196–200.
- Weimann, Steffen, Manuel Kremer, Yonatan Plotnik, Yaakov Lumer, Stefan Nolte, Konstantinos G. Makris, Mordechai Segev, Mikael C. Rechtsman, and Alexander Szameit. "Topologically protected bound states in photonic parity–time-symmetric crystals." Nature materials 16, no. 4 (2017): 433–438.
- Tillmann, Max, Borivoje Dakić, René Heilmann, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit, and Philip Walther. "Experimental boson sampling." Nature photonics 7, no. 7 (2013): 540–544.
- Zeuner, Julia M., Mikael C. Rechtsman, Yonatan Plotnik, Yaakov Lumer, Stefan Nolte, Mark S. Rudner, Mordechai Segev, and Alexander Szameit. "Observation of a topological transition in the bulk of a non-Hermitian system." Physical review letters 115, no. 4 (2015): 040402.
- Szameit, Alexander, and Stefan Nolte. "Discrete optics in femtosecond-laser-written photonic structures." Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 43, no. 16 (2010): 163001.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Rostock, Universitätsbibliothek. "Szameit, Alexander - JSPDocportal Sample". cpr.uni-rostock.de.
- ^ a b "Alexander Szameit erhält Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis für junge Hochschullehrer 2017". Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung.
- ^ "Students, Post-docs and Group Alumni".
- ^ "Habilitation announcement of FSU Jena".
- ^ "Homepage of the CRC 1477 Light-Matter Interactions at Interfaces".
- ^ a b "Startseite - Experimentelle Festkörperoptik - Universität Rostock". www.optics.physik.uni-rostock.de.
- ^ a b Szameit, Alexander; Nolte, Stefan (2010). "Discrete optics in femtosecond-laser-written photonic structures". Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. 43 (16): 163001. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/43/16/163001. S2CID 116947148.
- ^ a b Weidemann, Sebastian; Kremer, Mark; Longhi, Stefano; Szameit, Alexander (2022). "Topological triple phase transition in non-Hermitian Floquet quasicrystals". Nature. 601 (7893): 354–359. Bibcode:2022Natur.601..354W. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04253-0. PMC 8770143. PMID 35046602.
- ^ Price, Hannah; Chong, Yidong; Khanikaev, Alexander; Schomerus, Henning; Maczewsky, Lukas J.; Kremer, Mark; Heinrich, Matthias; Szameit, Alexander; Zilberberg, Oded; Yang, Yihao (2022). "Roadmap on topological photonics". Journal of Physics: Photonics. 4 (3): 032501. arXiv:2201.06315. Bibcode:2022JPhP....4c2501P. doi:10.1088/2515-7647/ac4ee4. S2CID 246015398.
- ^ Kremer, Mark; Biesenthal, Tobias; Maczewsky, Lukas J.; Heinrich, Matthias; Thomale, Ronny; Szameit, Alexander (2019). "Demonstration of a two-dimensional PT-symmetric crystal". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 435. Bibcode:2019NatCo..10..435K. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08104-x. PMC 6347626. PMID 30683867.
- ^ Ehrhardt, Max; Heinrich, Matthias; Szameit, Alexander (2022). "Observation-dependent suppression and enhancement of two-photon coincidences by tailored losses". Nature Physics. 16 (3): 191–195. arXiv:2105.05459. Bibcode:2022NaPho..16..191E. doi:10.1038/s41566-021-00943-3. S2CID 234469825.
- ^ Maczewsky, Lukas J.; Heinrich, Matthias; Kremer, Mark; Ivanov, Sergey K.; Ehrhardt, Max; Martinez, Franklin; Kartashov, Yaroslav V.; Konotop, Vladimir V.; Torner, Lluis; Bauer, Dieter; Szameit, Alexander (2020). "Nonlinearity-induced photonic topological insulator". Science. 370 (6517): 701–704. arXiv:2010.12250. Bibcode:2020Sci...370..701M. doi:10.1126/science.abd2033. PMID 33154138. S2CID 225062505.
- ^ Lustig, Eran; Weimann, Steffen; Plotnik, Yonatan; Lumer, Yaakov; Bandres, Miguel; Szameit, Alexander; Segev, Mordechai (2019). "Photonic topological insulator in synthetic dimensions". Nature. 567 (7748): 356–360. arXiv:1807.01983. Bibcode:2019Natur.567..356L. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-0943-7. PMID 30778196. S2CID 256768164.
- ^ Dreisow, Felix; Heinrich, Matthias; Keil, Robert; Tuennermann, Andreas; Nolte, Stefan; Longhi, Stefano; Szameit, Alexander (2010). "Classical Simulation of Relativistic Zitterbewegung in Photonic Lattices". Physical Review Letters. 105 (14): 143902. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.105n3902D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.143902. PMID 21230830.
- ^ Awardees of the doctoral prize of the DPG, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- ^ Adolph Lomb Medal, Optica
- ^ Rudolf Kaiser award for Szameit, Deutsches Stiftungszentrum
- ^ Tomassoni Chisesi Prize, Sapienza Università di Roma
- ^ Optica Elected Fellows, Optica