Biography:Boubacar Kanté

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Boubacar Kanté
Born
Bamako, Mali
CitizenshipMali and United States
Alma materUniversity of Paris-Saclay
Known for
  • Scale-invariant lasers or Berkeley Surface Emitting Lasers (BerkSELs)[1]
  • Topological lasers[2]
  • Top 10 Breakthroughs, Physics World (2017)[3]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUC Berkeley
UC San Diego
CNRS
WebsiteKanté group (UC Berkeley)

Boubacar Kanté is a Malian American physicist and engineer working in the field of wave-matter interaction at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is the inaugural Chenming Hu Endowed Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS).[4]. He is also faculty scientist at the Materials Sciences Division (MSD) of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on optical phenomena at a very small scale, developing nanostructures to harness the interaction of light and matter, such as metamaterials, scalable lasers, topological lasers,[5] compact lenses,[6] or energy harvesting nanostructures. He is mostly known for his demonstration of the world first topological laser,[7] and his overcoming of a six-decade old challenge on the scaling of single-aperture lasers with a laser known as the Berkeley Surface Emitting Laser or BerkSEL.[8]

Education

Dr. Kanté received advanced graduate degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Lille University of Science and Technology in France in 2006 and pursued a Ph.D in physics at the Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies of University of Paris-Saclay (formerly known as the Institute for Fundamental Electronics) which he received in 2010. He then joined UC Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow in Xiang Zhang group, before moving to UC San Diego where he became an assistant and then associate professor. In 2019, he returned to UC Berkeley in the EECS department as an associate professor.

Awards and honors

  • 2021 Bakar Fellowship
  • 2020 Moore Inventor Fellowship[9]
  • 2017 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
  • 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award[10]
  • 2015 Hellman fellowship[11]
  • 2010 Richelieu Prize in Sciences[12]

References

  1. ↑ Contractor, Rushin; Noh, Wanwoo; Redjem, Walid; Qarony, Wayesh; Martin, Emma; Dhuey, Scott; Schwartzberg, Adam; Kanté, Boubacar (2022). "Scalable single-mode surface-emitting laser via open-Dirac singularities". Nature 608 (7924): 692–698. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05021-4. PMID 35768016. Bibcode: 2022Natur.608..692C. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05021-4. 
  2. ↑ Bahari, Babak; Ndao, Abdoulaye; Vallini, Felipe; El Amili, Abdelkrim; Fainman, Yeshaiahu; Kanté, Boubacar (2017). "Nonreciprocal lasing in topological cavities of arbitrary geometries". Science 358 (6363): 636–640. doi:10.1126/science.aao4551. PMID 29025992. Bibcode: 2017Sci...358..636B. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aao4551. 
  3. ↑ Physicists create first ‘topological’ laser
  4. ↑ Boubacar Kanté - UC Berkeley EECS
  5. ↑ Bahari, Babak; Ndao, Abdoulaye; Vallini, Felipe; El Amili, Abdelkrim; Fainman, Yeshaiahu; Kanté, Boubacar (2017). "Nonreciprocal lasing in topological cavities of arbitrary geometries". Science 358 (6363): 636–640. doi:10.1126/science.aao4551. PMID 29025992. Bibcode: 2017Sci...358..636B. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aao4551. 
  6. ↑ Ndao, Abdoulaye; Hsu, Liyi; Ha, Jeongho; Park, Jun-Hee; Chang-Hasnain, Connie; Kanté, Boubacar (2020). "Octave bandwidth photonic fishnet-achromatic-metalens". Nature Communications 11 (1): 3205. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17015-9. PMID 32587251. Bibcode: 2020NatCo..11.3205N. 
  7. ↑ Bahari, Babak; Ndao, Abdoulaye; Vallini, Felipe; El Amili, Abdelkrim; Fainman, Yeshaiahu; Kanté, Boubacar (2017). "Nonreciprocal lasing in topological cavities of arbitrary geometries". Science 358 (6363): 636–640. doi:10.1126/science.aao4551. PMID 29025992. Bibcode: 2017Sci...358..636B. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aao4551. 
  8. ↑ Contractor, Rushin; Noh, Wanwoo; Redjem, Walid; Qarony, Wayesh; Martin, Emma; Dhuey, Scott; Schwartzberg, Adam; Kanté, Boubacar (2022). "Scalable single-mode surface-emitting laser via open-Dirac singularities". Nature 608 (7924): 692–698. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05021-4. PMID 35768016. Bibcode: 2022Natur.608..692C. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05021-4. 
  9. ↑ Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Announces 2020 Moore Inventor Fellows – Business Wire
  10. ↑ CAREER: Bound state in the continuum lasers, National Science Foundation
  11. ↑ "Boubacar Kante, Hellman Fellows Fund". http://www.hellmanfellows.org/fellows/boubacar-kante/. 
  12. ↑ "Prix scientifiques, Lauréats des prix, CNRS". http://www.cnrs.fr/infoslabos/Prix-scientifiques/laureats.htm. 

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