Advanced Lasers

Oleksiy V. Shulika has received both Ph.D. degree in optics and laser physics from V. N. Karazin National University, Ukraine, in 2008 and a title of Associate Professor in 2012. His research interests are ultrafast and nonlinear photonics, THz photonics, semiconductor optics, semiconductor nanostructures, and optoelectronic devices. He is coeditor of 2 books “Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Basic Research and Practical Applications”, Springer©2011, and “Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Detection of Explosives and CBRN (Using Terahertz)”, Springer©2014. Dr. Shulika is Member of IEEE Photonics Society, Optical Society of America, and SPIE. He is Member of the Organizing Committee of the Conference Series “International Conference on Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers, CAOL”, NATO Advanced Research Workshop “Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Basic Research and Applications, TERA-MIR”, “International Conference on Laser and Fiber-Optical Networks Modeling, LFNM”. Igor A. Sukhoivanov had received the Ph.D. degree in 1985, the Dr. Sc. degree in Optics and Laser Physics from V. N. Karazin National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine in 2002, and Full Professor degree in 2004. Currently he is with the Guanajuato University, Dept. Electronics, DICIS, Salamanca, Mexico, Professor Titular B., Member SNI, level II. He is the author/coauthor of 9 book chapters and more than 130 journal papers. He is coauthor of 1 book “Photonic Crystals: Physics and Practical Modeling”Springer©2009 His research interests include photonic devices, semiconductor lasers and theory of quantum confinement structures, photonic crystal elements, ultra short pulse propagation in fibers. Prof. Sukhoivanov is a Senior Member of the IEEE Photonics Society (IPS), and of the Opt. Society of America (OSA), member of the American Phys. Soc. (APS), and the Soc. of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). He is Organizerand Chairman of Int. Conference on Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers (CAOL), Int. Conference on Laser and Fiber Optical Networks Modeling, etc. He is also Co-organizer of separate topics in LEOS Summer Topicals’2008 and PHO Summer Tropicals’2010 in Mexico.

1 Recent Progress in Polarization-Bistable VCSELs and Their Applications to All-Optical Signal Processing.- 2 Tunable Lasers based on Multimode Interference Effects.- 3 Whispering gallery mode microdisk resonator with dynamic material properties.- 4 Superradiant lasing and collective dynamics of active centers with polarization lifetime exceeding photon lifetime.- 5 The control of energy, temporal and spatial characteristics a microchip laser with active output mirror.- 6 Recent Advances in Secure Transmission with Chaotic Carriers.- 7 Superwicking surfaces produced by femtosecond laser.- 8 Optical processors as conceptual tools for designing nonconventional devices.- 9 Description of the Dynamics of Charged Particles in Electric Fields: An Approach using Fractional Calculus.- 10 Sub- and nanosecond pulsed lasers applied to the generation of broad spectrum in standard and microstructured optical fibers.- 11 Extremely high power CO2 laser beam correction.- 12 Measurements of intense and wide-aperture laser radiation parameters with thinwire bolometers.- 13 Spectral and lasing characteristics of some red and NIR laser dyes in silica matrices.- 14 Interpretation of the time delay in the ionization of Coulomb systems by attosecond laser pulses.