Laboratory of Coherent Optics
CO: Milestones of History
Main Publications LCO
Laboratory Staff
The Movie: RQPM autocorrelator pattern variation with pulse delay.
Research focus:
- Optical and spectral properties of photonic crystals (PCs)
- Controllable PCs (electromagnetically induced transparency and Raman interaction)
- PCs with liquid-crystal inclusions
- Resonance PCs
- Nonlinear PCs
- Fast and slow light
- Nonlinear optical processes in metamaterials
- Nanocolloids: structural self-organization and interaction with optical radiation
- Study of the structural phase transformations in solid-state reactions and atomic ordering in thin films by transmission electron microscopy, high-resolution electron diffraction, and X-ray diffraction microanalysis
Advanced Results
- Nonlinear-optical frequency conversion of femtosecond Ti : sapphire laser radiation in the stochastic quasi-phase-matching.
- Nonlinear Cherenkov diffraction of femtosecond laser pulses in irregular domain structures of strontium tetraborate.
- Generation of fs pulses down to 121 nm in strontium tetraborate.
- Raman-induced gratings in atomic media.
- Optical transistor based on a photonic crystal with Raman defect.
- Polarization-optical characteristics of light in one-dimensional photonic crystals with a twisted nematic defect layer.
- Solid-state reactions and order-disorder transitions in Pd/α‑Fe(001) thin films.
- Two-photon dynamics in the coherent Rydberg atomic ensemble.
Research Techniques
- Methods of nonlinear optics and quantum mechanics
- Computer simulation
- Experimental methods of optics, optical spectroscopy, and laser physics
- Electron microscopy
Equipment
- TSUNAMI Femtosecond Laser (Spectra Physics)
- LEA-S500 Laser Elemental Analyzers (Solar TII)
- MSDD1000 Monochromator (Solar TII)
- Ocean Optics 2000 Spectrum Analyzer
- Solid-state lasers
- Supercontinuum Generation Module
- Single-Photon Detector
- Far- and Vacuum-Ultraviolet Spectrometer