Hyatt M. Gibbs

  • Faculty Affiliation: Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus of Optical Sciences
Education: 
  • Ph.D., University of California, 1965
  • B.S., North Carolina State University, 1960
  • A.A., Mars Hill College, 1958
Specific Research Interests: 
  • Cavity QED of semiconductors using quantum dots in photonic crystal slab nanocavities.
  • Molecular beam epitaxy growth of gallium-arsenide/aluminium-gallium-arsenide heterostructures on gallium-arsenide substrates and GaAlInAs/AlInAs heterostructures on indium phosphide substrates including quantum dots, quantum wells, planar microcavities (vertical cavity surface emitting lasers), samples for fabrication of photonic crystal slab nanocavities, and samples to provide gain for split-ring resonator metamaterials.
  • Low-energy high-speed nonlinear optical switches.
  • Photonic crystal slab waveguides and interconnections.
  • Quantum optics, nonlinear optics and femtosecond dynamics of quantum dots and wells.

Patents

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4,121,167 Amplifying characteristics of a cavity-enclosed nonlinear medium
4,012,699 Amplifying characteristics of a cavity-enclosed nonlinear medium

Books Authored

  • Nonlinear Photonics
    Hyatt M. Gibbs, Galina Khitrova and Nasser Peyghambarian
  • Optical Bistability: Controlling Light with Light
    Hyatt M. Gibbs

Books Edited

  • Optical Bistability II
    Charles M. Bowden, Hyatt M. Gibbs and Samuel L. McCall
  • Optical Bistability III
    Hyatt M. Gibbs, Paul Mandel, Nasser Peyghambarian and S. Desmond Smith

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