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Konstantin L. Vodopyanov

Konstantin L. Vodopyanov

21st Century Scholar Chair, Professor of Optics & Photonics, and Physics
CREOL A113
407-823-6818
vodopyanov@creol.ucf.edu
Mid-Infrared Combs Group

Biography

Konstantin L. Vodopyanov obtained his MS from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (“Phys-Tech”) and his PhD and DSc (Habilitation) from the Oscillations Lab. of Lebedev Physical Institute (later General Physics Inst.), led by Nobel Prize winner Alexander Prokhorov.  Konstantin served an assistant professor at the Moscow Phys-Tech (1985-90), an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the University of Bayreuth in Germany (1990-92), and as a Royal Society postdoctoral 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 (Stanford University, 2003-2013) and is now a 21st Century Scholar Chair & Professor of Optics at CREOL, College of Optics & Photonics, Univ. Central Florida. 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). He has > 350 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, mid-IR and terahertz-wave generation, ultra broadband frequency combs and their spectroscopic and biomedical applications.

Awards & Honors

  • American Physical Society (APS) Fellow
  • International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow
  • Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow
  • United Kingdom’s Institute of Physics (IOP) Fellow

Research Group

Broadband mid-IR (λ > 2.5 µm) frequency combs based on subharmonic optical parametric oscillators. Trace molecular sensing. Biomedical applications of mid-IR combs. Supercontinuum generation in chalcogenide fibers. Photonic THz wave generation. Nano-IR spectroscopy.

Scientists

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Andrey Muraviev
Andrey Muraviev
amuravie@gmail.com
Qitian Ru
Qitian Ru

Students

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Taiki Kawamori
Taiki Kawamori
Optics Ph.D.
Dmitrii Konnov
Dmitrii Konnov
Optics Ph.D.

Publications

K. L. Vodopyanov "Ultra-broadband mid-infrared frequency combs produced by optical subharmonic generation" Quantum Electronics 52, 307-312 (2022)

M.N. Polyanskiy, I.V. Pogorelsky, M. Babzien, R. Kupfer, K.L. Vodopyanov and M.A. Palmer "Post-compression of long-wave infrared 2 picosecond sub-terawatt pulses in bulk materials" Optics Express, 29(20), pp. 31714-31725 (2021)

M.N. Polyanskiy, M. Babzien, I.V. Pogorelsky, R. Kupfer, K.L. Vodopyanov and M.A. Palmer "Single-shot measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of air at 9.2 mu m with a picosecond terawatt CO2 laser" Optics Letters, 46(9), pp. 2067-2070 (2021)

Q. Ru, T. Kawamori, P.G. Schunemann, S. Vasilyev, S.B. Mirov and K.L. Vodopyanov "Two-octave-wide (3 2 mu m) subharmonic produced in a minimally dispersive optical parametric oscillator cavity" Optics Letters, 46(4), pp. 709-712 (2021)

E.V. Karlovets, I.E. Gordon, D. Konnov, A.V. Muraviev and K.L. Vodopyanov "Dual-comb laser spectroscopy of CS2 near 4.6 mu m" Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, 256, A. 107269 (2020)

A.V. Muraviev, D. Konnov and K.L. Vodopyanov "Broadband high-resolution molecular spectroscopy with interleaved mid-infrared frequency combs" Scientific Reports, 10(1), A. 18700 (2020)

M. Yessenov, Q.T. Ru, K.L. Schepler, M. Meem, R. Menon, K.L. Vodopyanov, and A.F. Abouraddy "Mid-infrared diffraction-free space-time wave packets" OSA Continuum 3(3), pp. 420-429 (2020)

Z.E. Loparo, E. Ninnemann, Q.T. Ru, K.L. Vodopyanov, and S.S. Vasu "Broadband mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator for dynamic high-temperature multi-species measurements in reacting systems" Optics Letters, 45(2), pp. 491-494 (2020)

D. Martyshkin, V. Fedorov, T. Kesterson, S. Vasilyev, H.R. Gu, J.Q. Liu, W.L. Weng, K.L. Vodopyanov, T.J. Kippenberg, and S. Mirov "Visible-near-middle infrared spanning supercontinuum generation in a silicon nitride (Si3N4) waveguide" Optical Materials Express, 9(6), pp. 2553-2559 (2019)

T. Kawamori, Q. Ru, and K.L. Vodopyanov "Comprehensive model for randomly phase-matched frequency conversion in zinc-blende polycrystals and experimental results for ZnSe" Physical Review Applied, 11, 054015 (2019)

S. Vasilyev, I. Moskalev, V. Smolski, J. Peppers, M. Mirov, A. Muraviev, K.L. Vodopyanov, S. Mirov, and V. Gapontsev "Multi-octave visible to long-wave IR femtosecond continuum generated in Cr:ZnS-GaSe tandem" Optics Express, 27(11), pp. 16405-16413 (2019)

T. Tomberg, A. Muraviev, Q. Ru, and K.L. Vodopyanov "Background-free broadband absorption spectroscopy based on interferometric suppression with a sign-inverted waveform" Optica, 6(2), pp. 147-151 (2019)

S. Vasilyev, I.S. Moskalev, V.O. Smolski, J.M. Peppers, M. Mirov, A.V. Muraviev, Z. Zawilski, P.G. Schunemann, S.B. Mirov, K.L. Vodopyanov, and V.P. Gapontsev "Super-octave longwave mid-infrared coherent transients produced by optical rectification of few-cycle 2.5-mu m pulses" Optica, 6(1), pp. 111-114 (2019)

V. Smolski, S. Vasilyev, I. Moskalev, M. Mirov, Q. Ru, A. Muraviev, P. Schunemann, S. Mirov, V. Gapontev, and K.L. Vodopyanov "Half-Watt average power femtosecond source spanning 3-8 A mu m based on subharmonic generation in GaAs" Applied Physics B-Lasers and Optics, 124(6), pp. 101 (2018)

A.V. Muraviev, V.O. Smolski, Z. E. Loparo, and K.L. Vodopyanov "Massively parallel sensing of trace molecules and their isotopologues with broadband subharmonic mid-infrared frequency combs" Nature Photonics, 12(4), pp. 209-215 (2018)

Z.E. Loparo, J.G. Lopez, S. Neupane, W.P. Partridge Jr., K.L. Vodopyanov, and S.S. Vasu "Fuel-rich n-heptane oxidation: A shock tube and laser absorption study" Combustion and Flame 185, pp. 220–233 (2017)

Q. Ru, Z. E. Loparo, X. Zhang, S. Crystal, S.S. Vasu, P. G. Schunemann, and K.L. Vodopyanov "Self-referenced octave-wide subharmonic GaP optical parametric oscillator centered at 3 µm and pumped by an Er-fiber laser" Optics Letters, 42(1), pp. 4756-4759 (2017)

F. Gou, F. Peng, Q. Ru, Y.-H. Lee, H. Chen, Z. He, T. Zhan, K.L. Vodopyanov, and S.T. Wu "Mid-wave infrared beam steering based on high-efficiency liquid crystal diffractive waveplates" Optics Express, 25(19), pp. 22404-22410 (2017)

Q. Ru, N. Lee, X. Chen, K. Zhong, G. Tsoy, M. Mirov, S. Vasilyev, S. B. Mirov, and K.L. Vodopyanov "Optical parametric oscillation in a random polycrystalline medium" Optica, 4(6), pp. 617-618 (2017)

M. Ebrahim-Zadeh, and K.L. Vodopyanov "Mid-infrared coherent sources and applications: introduction" Journal Of The Optical Society Of America B - Optical Physics 33(11) (2016)

Alumni

PhD

Zachary Loparo, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Spring 2020
Qitian Ru, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019
Taiki Kawamori, Optics Ph.D., Unknown

MS

Suyuan Chen, Optics M.S., Fall 2020
Jia Xu, Optics M.S., Summer 2015

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