Kurt Busch

Prof. Dr. Kurt Busch
  • Head of Group
  • 3'208
+49 [30] 2093 82452
+49 [30] 2093 82451

Humboldt-University - Institute for Physics - TOP

Lise-Meitner-Haus
Newtonstrasse 15
12489 Berlin
Germany
Photonic Nanostructures
Plasmonics
Quantum Photonics
Method Development
Fluctuation-Induced Phenomena
Group IV Photonics

Curriculum Vitae

Since 2011 Professor (W3) of Theoretical Optics & Photonics at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Group Leader at the Max-Born-Institute, Berlin
2005-2011 Professor of Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2004-2005 Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida (CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics and Department of Physics)
2000-2003 Research Group Leader within the Emmy-Noether program of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
1997-2000 Postdoctoral Research at the University of Toronto (Prof. Sajeev John)
1993-1996 PhD work at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) and Iowa State University (Profs. Peter Wölfle and Costas M. Soukoulis)
Thesis: “Transport properties of classical waves in disordered media”
1993 Diplom in Physics, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) (Prof. Ralph von Baltz)
Thesis: “Photogalvanic Effect-Shift Currents“

Major Research Interests

Theory of light propagation and light-matter interaction in complex optical and photonic systems:

  • Quantum Photonics and Nano-Photonics
  • Computational Optics & Photonics
  • Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, and Random Media
  • Fluctuation-Induced Phenomena
  • Group-IV Photonics

Honors and Awards

2019 Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the Optical Society of America B
2012 Fellow of the Optical Society of America
2009 Teaching Award, Department of Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
2006 Carl-Zeiss Research Award
2005 Guest professor of the Otto Mønsted Foundation, Danish Technical University
2000 Emmy-Noether Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
1997 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
1994 PhD Student Scholarship, Graduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg
1993 PhD Student Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

Publications

Publications
Topological protection versus degree of entanglement of two-photon light in photonic topological insulators
K. Tschernig, A, Jimenez-Galan, D.N. Christodoulides, M. Ivanov, K. Busch, M.A. Bandres, and A. Perez-Leija (2021)
Nature Communications 12:1974
Additive splitting methods for parallel solutions of evolution problems
S. Amiranashvili, M. Radziunas, U. Bandelow, K. Busch, and R. Ciegis (2021)
Journal of Computational Physics 436:110320
Enhanced Faraday rotation by dielectric metasurfaces with Bayesian shape-optimized scatterers
T: Kiel, P. Varytis, B. Beverungen, P.T. Kristensen, and K. Busch (2021)
Optics Letters 46:1720
Electron energy loss spectroscopy on freestanding perforated gold films
M. Prämassing, T. Kiel, S. Irsen, K. Busch, and S. Linden (2021)
Physical Review B 103:115403
Defect-State Lasing in Photonic Lattices of Metal–Organic Microcavities
M. Kliem, T. Kiel, M. Kück, S. Meister, A. Mischok, H. Fröb, K. Busch, and K. Leo (2021)
Advanced Photonics Research 2:2000116
Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of quantum friction
D. Reiche, F. Intravaia, J.-T. Hsiang, K. Busch, and B.L. Hu (2020)
Physical Review A (rapid) 102:050203
Modeling electromagnetic resonators using quasinormal modes
P.T. Kristensen, K. Herrmann, F. Intravaia, and K. Busch (2020)
Advances in Opics and Photonics 12:612
On the applicability of quantum-optical concepts in strong-coupling nanophotonics
C. Tserkezis, A. I. Fernandez-Dominguez, P. A. D. Goncalves, F. Todisco, J. D. Cox, K. Busch, N. Stenger, S. I. Bozhevolnyi, N. A. Mortensen, and C. Wolff (2020)
Reports on Progress in Physics 83:82401
Dispersion control in a near-infrared subwavelength resonator with a tailored hyperbolic metamaterial
E. Travkin, T. Kiel, S. Sadofev, S. Kalusniak, K. Busch, and O. Benson (2020)
Optics Letters 45:3665
Multiphoton synthetic lattices in multiport waveguide arrays: synthetic atoms and Fock graphs
K. Tschernig, R. de J. Leon-Montiel, A. Perez-Leija, and K. Busch (2020)
Photonics Research 8:1161

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