Serkan Ateş leads the Quantum Photonics Systems Laboratory (QPSL) in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Sabancı University. His research focus is on solid-state quantum optics and nanophotonics, specifically investigating single-photon emitters in 2D materials such as defects in hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN).
Dr. Ateş received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Stuttgart and held postdoctoral research positions at the Technical University of Denmark and NIST, USA. He previously served as an Associate Professor at the Izmir Institute of Technology (2015–2025). He is a recipient of the TÜBA-GEBİP (2017) and the BAGEP (2019) Young Scientist Awards.
Selected Publications:
- Ömer S. Tapşın, Furkan Ağlarcı, Serkan Ateş
Secure Quantum Key Distribution with Room-Temperature Quantum Emitter
arXiv:2501.13902, 2025 - Aslı Çakan; Chanaprom Cholsuk; Angus Gale; Mehran Kianinia; Serkan Paçal; Serkan Ateş; Igor Aharonovich; Milos Toth; Tobias Vogl
Quantum Optics Applications of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Defects
Advanced Optical Materials, pp. 2402508, 2025. - Anand Kumar; Çağlar Samaner; Chanaprom Cholsuk; Tjorben Matthes; Serkan Paçal; Yağız Oyun; Ashkan Zand; Robert J. Chapman; Grégoire Saerens; Rachel Grange; Sujin Suwanna; Serkan Ateş; Tobias Vogl
Polarization Dynamics of Solid-State Quantum Emitters
ACS Nano, 2024. - Çağlar Samaner; Serkan Paçal; Görkem Mutlu; Kıvanç Uyanık; Serkan Ates
Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution with Single Photons from Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Advanced Quantum Technologies, 5, 2022. - S Ates; I Agha; A Gulinatti; I Rech; M T Rakher; A Badolato; K Srinivasan
Two-Photon Interference Using Background-Free Quantum Frequency Conversion of Single Photons Emitted by an InAs Quantum Dot
Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, pp. 147405, 2012. - K H Madsen; S Ates; T Lund-Hansen; A Löffler; S Reitzenstein; A Forchel; P Lodahl
Observation of Non-Markovian Dynamics of a Single Quantum Dot in a Micropillar Cavity
Phys. Rev. Lett., 106, pp. 233601, 2011. - S Ates; SM Ulrich; A Ulhaq; S Reitzenstein; A Löffler; S Höfling; A Forchel; P Michler
Non-resonant dot–cavity coupling and its potential for resonant single-quantum-dot spectroscopy
Nature Photonics, 3, pp. 724 – 728, 2009. - S Ates; S M Ulrich; S Reitzenstein; A Löffler; A Forchel; P Michler
Post-Selected Indistinguishable Photons from the Resonance Fluorescence of a Single Quantum Dot in a Microcavity
Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, pp. 167402, 2009.