Hatice Altug
Faculty Investigator, Nanophotonic Devices for Optical Communications
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
617-358-4769
altug @ bu.edu
Hatice Altug is Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Division of Materials Science and Engineering, and Faculty Investigator of the Smart Lighting ERC.
Professor Altug’s Laboratory of Integrated Nanophotonics and Biosensing Systems (LINBS) focuses on developing a new generation of smart light sources whose spectral composition, color temperature, polarization, spatial and temporal modulation properties are fully controllable and tunable. These controls in lighting technology will change many aspects of our life from transportation to communication as well as enabling advances in fundamental sciences. In order to achieve these new functionalities, we are using photonic band gap materials. These are man-made nanomaterials with periodic dielectric index modulation that is on the order of wavelength of light. They offer unprecedented control over light and light-matter interaction and open tremendous opportunities to engineer new lighting devices.
Related Publications:
H. Altug, D. Englund, J. Vuckovic, “Low Threshold Surface-Passivated Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser,” Applied Physics Letters, 91 071124 (2007).
H. Altug, D. Englund, I. Fushman, J. Vuckovic, “Efficient Terahertz Room-temperature Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser,” Applied Physics Letters 91 071126 (2007).
H. Altug, D. Englund, J. Vuckovic, “Ultra-fast Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Laser,” Nature Physics, 2, 484-488, (2006).
H. Altug, J. Vuckovic, “Photonic crystal nanocavity array laser,” Optics Express, 13, 8819 (2005).
H. Altug, J. Vuckovic, “Polarization control and sensing with two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal microcavity arrays,” Optics Letters, 30, 982 (2005).
H. Altug, J. Vuckovic, “Experimental demonstration of small group velocity of light in two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal microcavity arrays,” Applied Physics Letters, 86, 111102 (2005).
H. Altug, N. C. Helman, J. E. Roth, D. P. Bour, D. Miller, “Misalignment-Tolerant Surface-Normal Low-Voltage Modulator for Optical Interconnects,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 11, 338 (2005).
H. Altug, J. Vuckovic, “Two-dimensional coupled photonic crystal resonator arrays,” Applied Physics Letters, 84 161 (2004).
H. Altug, Mehmet F. Yanik, J. Vuckovic, “Sub-micron all-optical digital memory and integration of nano-scale photonic devices without isolators,” IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 22, 2316 (2004).
H. Altug, B. Temelkuran, E. Ozbay, “Experimental investigation of layer-by-layer metallic photonic crystals,” IEEE Proceedings on Optoelectronics, 145, 409 (1998).
