Director, NSF PREM Photonic Metamaterials

Norfolk State University, Cornell University and Purdue University,

Partnership for Research and Education in Materials

Education

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(1979-1985)  Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia; graduated with an equivalent to a US MS degree in Electronics Engineering in 1985.

(1987-1989) General Physics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences Moscow, Russia; Ph.D. in Physical-Mathematical Sciences (equivalent to a US Ph.D. in Physics), January 1990.

Postdoctoral Experience

(1991-1993)   Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma; Center for Materials Science and Engineering; spectroscopic studies of laser related materials.

Research Experience and Accomplishments

• Random Laser. Study of stimulated emission in ensembles of micro-size and nano-size particles with optical-gain, potential miniature light sources for integrated optics, opto-electronics, and nanoscale photonics devices. Demonstration of the random lasers based on GaAs, Ti:sapphire and LiF with color centers. Demonstration of the second harmonic random laser.

• Development of composite laser and nonlinear optical materials.

• Nanoplasmonics: Enhancement of localized surface plasmon resonances and elongation of propagation length of surface plasmon polaritons by optical gain in metal-dielectric composite media.

• Studies of enhancement of material’s optical and spectroscopic properties by metallic nanoscale particles and fractal clusters of nanoscale particles.

• Spectroscopic characterization and study of energy transfer processes (including upconversion) in laser and nonlinear optical materials. Development of the model of upconversion beyond the “αn²” approximation.  

• Optimization of solid-state laser materials; solid-state laser development. (Nd, Er, Ho, Tm, Yb, Cr doped  laser materials and lasers)

• Holographic recording; studies of photorefraction mechanisms and holographic currents in dielectric and semiconductor crystals; holographic data storage. Demonstration of efficient nonvolatile permanent grating recording in Mn:YAlO₃, a promising material for holographic data storage, alternative to LiNbO₃.

• Study of intrinsic optical bistability in a broad variety of materials with different mechanisms of nonlinearity. Demonstration of the relationship between static properties of bistable systems and dynamics of switching, similarities with phase transitions.

Solid-State Random Lasers
Noginov, Mikhail

2005, XVIII, 238 p. 134 illus., 3 in color., Hardcover,

ISBN: 0-387-23913-8
Due: September 2005

One book , three book chapters, two edited SPIE proceedings, more than 90 publications in refereed scientific journals, more than 40 publications in proceedings of national and international research societies, more than 100 conference presentations.

Funding history

• P.I. of the DARPA STTR Phase I project #DAAH01-97-C-R237 ($40K);

• P.I. of the ONR/BMDO grant #N00014-96-1-5015 ($300K);

• P.I. of the addendum to the NASA Grant # NAG-1-1453 ($40K);

• P.I. of the AFOSR/BMDO grant #F49620-98-1-0101 ($299K);

• P.I. of the NASA grant #NAG 1-2172 ($150K);

• P.I. of the NASA grant (NCC5-514)/NCC-1-01049 ($2M);

• P.I. subcontract from Materials Modifications Inc., via Airforce Phase II SBIR ($100K).

• Co-P.I. of the NSF CREST grant # HRD-0317722 ($4M) current;

• Co-P.I. of the NSF Phase IIA SBIR (Subcontract from Ondax Inc.), ($105K) current;

• P.I. subcontract from NSF NCN, Purdue University, grant # EEC-0228390 ($100K) current.

• Director and P.I. of the NSF PREM, grant # DMR-0611430 ($2.8 M) current.