University at Buffalo (UB)
Published December 10, 2014 This content is archived.
Natalia Litchinitser, a professor in UB's department of electrical engineering, was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).
Dr. Litchinitser was recognized for her “fundamental contributions to linear and nonlinear light-matter interactions in metamaterials and structured light interactions with nanostructures.” Her nomination was approved by the Council of the American Physical Society upon recommendation of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. The Fellowship in the APS is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership. The election to APS Fellowship is recognition by her peers of her outstanding contributions to physics.
Her research interests include nonlinear and singular optics in metamaterials, light filamentation, photonic devices, and optical communications. Potential applications include high-resolution optical imaging as well as all-optical signal processing, multidimensional and secure communications, and sensing.
Following technical staff roles at OFS/Bell Laboratories and Tyco Submarine Systems, Dr. Litchinitser joined the UB faculty in 2008. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and was part of an OFS/Bell Laboratories team that received R&D Magazine’s 2002 R&D 100 award for development of the rightwave™ tunable dispersion compensator (TDC), a state-of-the-art optical networking component for communication networks. The award is one of the most prestigious honors in applied research, having previously been given to technological breakthroughs such as the printer, the fax and the automatic teller machine. She is a recipient of the UB 2014 Exceptional Scholar Award for Sustained Achievement.
Dr. Litchinitser received a doctorate in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Moscow State University.