Federico Capasso - Flat optics

Federico Capasso After more than twenty years at Bell Labs in Murray Hills as a researcher, manager and then Vice President of Physical Research, he joined Harvard University (USA) in 2003 as the Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering. His main achievements are in the fields of Band Structure Engineering and Quantum Cascade Lasers (which were invented by him and his group in 1994), Metasurfaces and Flat optics, Plasmonics, and Casimir forces.