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 Dr. Konstantin VODOPYANOV

Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory
Stanford University
348 via Pueblo Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-4088, USA
email: vodopyan@stanford.edu		 my image


Konstantin L. Vodopyanov obtained his MS degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ("Phys-Tech") and accomplished his PhD and DSc (Habilitation) in the Oscillations Lab of Lebedev Physical Institute (later General Physics Inst.), led by Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov. He was an assistant professor at Moscow Phys-Tech (1985-90), Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the University of  Bayreuth, Germany (1990-92), and a Royal Society Research Fellow and lecturer at Imperial College, London, UK (1992-98). In 1998, he moved to the United States and became head of the laser group at Inrad, Inc., NJ (1998-2000), and later director of mid-IR systems at Picarro, Inc.,CA (2000-2003). His other industry experience includes co-founding and providing technical guidance for several US and European companies. In 2003 he returned to Academia and is now with the Edward L. Ginzton Lab at Stanford University. Dr. Vodopyanov is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Optical Society of America (OSA), SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering, UK Institute of Physics (IOP), and a Senior Member of IEEE.  He has > 300 technical publications and is member of program committees for several major laser conferences including CLEO (most recent, General Chair in 2010) and Photonics West (Conference Chair). His research interests include nonlinear optics, laser spectroscopy, nano-IR spectroscopy, mid-IR and terahertz-wave generation using micro-and nano-structured materials, and mid-infrared frequency combs and their applications.