OPN Talks with Federico Capasso

Federico Capasso of Harvard University is best known for his co-invention of the quantum cascade laser in 1994 with his colleagues at Bell Laboratories. He began his career as a post-doc at Bell Labs in 1976 and worked his way up to vice president of physical research by 2000. In 2003, he left Bell Labs to join the faculty in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard, where he currently leads a group that studies nanophotonics, metamaterials, quantum electrodynamics and related areas. In 2005, Capasso won the King Faisal International Prize for Science. At that time, he was cited as “one of the most creative and influential physicists in the world.”