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
- 2023 CREOL Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
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.
Publications
I.-C. Benea-Chelmus, J. Faist, A. Leitenstorfer, A. S Moskalenko, I. Pupeza, D. V. Seletskiy, and K. L. Vodopyanov, "Electro-optic sampling of classical and quantum light," Optica 12, 546-563 (2025). (2025)
A. Fuerbach, C. Grillet, K. Vodopyanov "Guest editorial: Special topic on mid-IR photonics" APL Photonics, 10, issue 4 (2025). (2025)
Muraviev, A (Muraviev, Andrey) [1] ; Konnov, D (Konnov, Dmitrii) [1] ; Vasilyev, S (Vasilyev, Sergey) [2] ; Vodopyanov, KL (Vodopyanov, Konstantin l.) [1] "Dual-frequency-comb UV spectroscopy with one million resolved comb lines " Optica, Volume: 11, Issue: 11, Page: 1486-1489, Year: 2024 (2024)
Konnov, D (Konnov, Dmitrii) [1] ; Silver, J (Silver, Jacob) [1] ; Muraviev, A (Muraviev, Andrey) [1] ; Vasilyev, S (Vasilyev, Sergey) [2] ; Vodopyanov, K (Vodopyanov, Konstantin) [3] "Dual -comb spectroscopy measures 240,000 spectral points in longwave infrared at video rate " Laser Focus World, Volume: 60, Issue: 10, Page: 40-42, Year: 2024 (2024)
Kempf, H (Kempf, Hannes) [1] , [2] ; Muraviev, A (Muraviev, Andrey) [3] ; Breuning, F (Breuning, Felix) [1] , [2] ; Schunemann, PG (Schunemann, Peter G.) [4] ; Tenne, R (Tenne, Ron) [1] , [2] ; Leitenstorfer, A (Leitenstorfer, Alfred) [1] , [2] ; Vodopyanov, K (Vodopyanov, Konstantin) "Direct sampling of femtosecond electric-field waveforms from an optical parametric oscillator" APL Photonics 9(3) (2024)
Polyanskiy, MN (Polyanskiy, Mikhail N.) [1] ; Pogorelsky, IV (Pogorelsky, Igor V.) [1] ; Babzien, M (Babzien, Marcus) [1] ; Vodopyanov, KL (Vodopyanov, Konstantin L.) [2] ; Palmer, MA (Palmer, Mark A.) [1] "Nonlinear refraction and absorption properties of optical materials for high-peak-power long-wave- infrared lasers" Optical Materials Express 14(3) pp. 696-714 (2024)
M. N. Polyanskiy, I.V. Pogorelsky, M. Babzien, K. L. Vodopyanov, and M. A. Palmer "Nonlinear refraction and absorption properties of optical materials for high-peak-power long-wave-infrared lasers." Opt. Mater. Express 14, 696 (2024)
D. Konnov, A. Muraviev, S. Vasilyev, K.L. Vodopyanov "High-resolution frequency-comb spectroscopy with electro-optic sampling and instantaneous octave-wide coverage across mid-IR to THz at a video rate" APL Photonics 8, 110801 (featured article) (2023)
S. Vasilyev, A. Muraviev, D. Konnov, M. Mirov, V. Smolski, I. Moskalev, S. Mirov, and K.L. Vodopyanov "Longwave infrared (6.6–11.4 µm) dual-comb spectroscopy with 240,000 comb-mode-resolved data points at video rate" Opt. Lett. 48, 2273-2276 (2023). (2023)
E. Carnero, C. Bock, Y. Liu, K. Corbin, E. Wohlers-Kariesch, K. Ruud, J. Moon, A. Marcus, R. Krajmalnik-Brown, A. Muraviev, K.L. Vodopyanov, and S. Smith "Measurement of 24-hour continuous human CH4 release in a whole room indirect calorimeter" J. Appl. Physiology 134, 766–776 (2023) (2023)
T. Kawamori, P. G. Schunemann, V. Gruzdev, and K.L. Vodopyanov "High-order (N=4–6) multiphoton absorption and mid-infrared Kerr nonlinearity in GaP, ZnSe, GaSe, and ZGP crystals" APL Photonics, 7, 086101 (2022). (2022)
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) PDF
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) PDF
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) PDF
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) PDF
Alumni
PhD
Dmitrii Konnov, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2024Taiki Kawamori, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2021
Zachary Loparo, Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Spring 2020
Qitian Ru, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019