Department of Physics
and Astronomy, Georgia State
University, 29 Peachtree Center Ave., Atlanta,
GA 30302. Phone: 678-457-4739, e-mail: mstockman@gsu,edu, Internet: http://www.phy-astr.gsu.edu/stockman
Mark I. Stockman, Ph. D., D. Sc., is a Professor of
Physics at Georgia State University
at Atlanta, GA.
Personal: Born
in Kharkov (Ukraine), US citizen. MS (Honors) in
Theoretical Physics from
Invited/Keynote
Talks
and Lectures: Presented
numerous plenary, keynote and invited talks and
lectures at major Conferences
in the field of optics and nanoplasmonics.
Chairman of SPIE Metal
Nanoplasmonics Conference 2005-2011 at San
Diego (CA), co-Chair of OSA
Nanoplasmonics and Metamaterials Conference (
Taught
short courses Nanoplasmonics
at
2005-2011 SPIE Photonics
West Meetings
and 2005-2011 SPIE Optics and
Photonics
Meetings, ETOPIM International Conference at
Sidney (Australia); Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Cachan (France) (2006);
University of Stuttgart (2008), Max
Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Garching at
Munich, Germany, 2009), Enrico
Fermi School at Varenna (Italy) 2010, Ettore
Majorana International School at
Erice, Sicily 2008 and 2011.
Visiting
Positions: Distinguished Visiting
Professor at Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Cachan (France) (March,
2006 and July, 2008); Invited Professor
at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de
Chimie Industrielle, Paris, France,
May-June, 2008; Guest Professor at the
University of Stuttgart
(September-November, 2008), Guest Professor at
Ludwig Maximilian University
(Munich, Germany) and Max Plank Institute for
Quantum Optics (Garching at
Munich, Germany) at the Munich Advanced
Photonics (
Expertise: Nanoplasmonics
and nanooptics, physical
optics, theoretical
condensed matter and optical physics, and strong
field and ultrafast optics and
nanoplasmonics.
Major
Scientific Results:
Mark I.
Stockman is a pioneer of nanoplasmonics
publishing his first results in this area in
1988, setting the foundations of
the field and later having obtained
groundbreaking results in it. His
pioneering research in this area began with the
introduction of the giant
optical enhancement in fractal nanoclusters of
plasmonic metals. He was one of
the co-authors in a fundamental paper (1992)
that correctly predicted the
spectrum of surface enhanced Raman scattering
(SERS) with a dramatic
enhancement in the red/near-ir spectral region,
which was instrumental in the
discovery by K. Kneipp et al. (1999) of the
single-molecule SERS, as
acknowledged by the corresponding reference.
Today SERS is a thriving field
with many new phenomena and applications.
In 1995-1996 he
introduced localization of plasmonic eigenmodes
and such universally accepted
phenomenon as plasmonic
near-field hot
spots. This direction of research was
further developed when in 2001 he in
collaboration with David Bergman showed that
dark and bright plasmonic
eigenmodes co-exist. He also showed that
strongly-localized eigenmodes are
necessarily dark. Thus it was established that
the
Starting from 2000,
Mark Stockman published a series of pioneering
results that, to a significant
degree, determined the modern development of the
field of nanooptics and
nanoplasmonics. In 2000 he pioneered the field
of ultrafast nanoplasmonics with
his Phys. Rev. Lett. article predicting the
giant ultrafast fluctuations (the “Ninth Wave
Effect”) of the nanoplasmonic
local fields. In 2003 he with co-authors
introduced coherent control of ultrafast
localization on the nanoscale ,
another milestone of the ultrafast
nanoplasmonics. This development allowed for
a very accurate control of optical energy with a
nanometer resolution in space
and with the femtosecond precision in time. This
breakthrough work has
initiated a significant field of scientific
research; in particular it has
stimulated Focus Program “Ultrafast
Nanooptics” of German Science Foundation
(2009).
In 2003, Mark Stockman
in collaboration with David Bergman set
foundation of quantum nanoplasmonics with
a seminal phys. Rev. Lett. article introducing Surface Plasmon Amplification by
Stimulated Emission of Radiation
(SPASER), published in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Simultaneously, they filed a patent
application for SPASER; a
In 2004, Mark Stockman
published two seminal results introducing adiabatic
concentration of optical energy on nanoscale
in plasmonic tapers and
efficient nanolenses
of nanoparticle
aggregates. Both these works enjoyed wide
experimental and theoretical
following, accumulating hundreds references.
He is continuing to
work very actively. In 2007, he pioneered
attosecond nanoplasmonics and attosecond
nanoplasmonic-field microscopy
[in collaboration with a team from Max Plank
Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ,
In 2010 he with his
collaborators introduced a novel concept of
adiabatic metallization of
dielectrics in strong fields. In 2011, this
concept has been developed by him
and the same collaborators to predict the
dynamic ultrafast metallization of
dielectrics. This development of the
ultrafast/ultrastrong-field
condensed-matter optical physics is promising to
become a foundation of the new
solid state technology of information processing
that is three orders of
magnitude faster than the existing technologies.
In 2012, he predicted optical
field effect in dielectrics where a strong
optical fields excites electrical
currents with a ~1 fs rise and decay times. This
effect was discovered
experimentally at MPQ/LMU (accepted to Nature).