My areas of research included electromagnetic diffraction theory, quantum mechanics, theory of tunneling and atomic force microscopes. My present research interests are in optics of microresonators, nanophotonics, microfluidics, quantum compiting and networking.

I graduated from the Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia, and have Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from the same University. I worked at the Physics Department of Saint-Petersburg University of Telecommunications (Russia) till 1995 when I joined Bell Laboratories (USA). In 2001, I continued my research at OFS Labs after transition of the Optical Fiber Research Department of Bell Labs into the OFS Labs of the Furukawa Electric Company. I joined the Aston Institute for Photonics Technologies at the end of 2013.

Optical Society of America, Fellow.

Royal Society, Reseacrh Fellow 2014-2019 (Wolfson Research Merit Award)

IEEE, Senior Member

Higher Eduaction Academy, Fellow

Member of the Editorial Board:

Optics Letters (OSA), 2010-2016

Photonics (MDPI), 2012-present

Optica (OSA) 2019-present

Quantum Mechanics (AP2QUM)

Three current PhD students

PI: Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics (Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award), £40K, 2014-2019.

Co-PI: Solitons and frequency combs in microresonators (Horizon 2020, H2020-EU.1.3.3, 691011),£22K, 2016-2019.

PI: Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics (EPSRC), £916K, 2017-2022.

PI: Quantum SNAP (US Army Research Laboratory), £145K, 2017-2018. 

CO-PI: European Industrial Doctorate project MOCCA, €301K, 2019-2023.

PI: Light microtruck: towards controlled transportation of light by light at the microscale (Leverhulme Trust), £214K, 2022-2025.

PI:  Towards quantum SNAP technology (The Royal Society), £12,000, 2023-2025.

PI: Picometre Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics (EPSRC), £1.167K, 2024-2028.

HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS, PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Developed new approach for the description of single photons interacting with atoms in optical microcavities (2019)
• Demonstrated thermally tunable SNAP microresonators (2018)
• Demonstrated the full localization of light in an optical capillary by a droplet (2017).
• Demonstrated better than 0.2 angstrom precision in fabrication of SNAP structures (2016).
• Demonstrated subangstrom-precise fabrication of SNAP structures with a femtosecond laser (2016).
• Proposed an ultralow loss miniature optical buffer (2015).
• Proposed slow light microfluidics (2014).
• Invented and demonstrated a fundamentally new type of slow light delay line with breakthrough performance (2013).
• Invented SNAP (Surface Nanoscale Axial Photonics), a platform for fabrication of miniature silica photonic circuits by nanoscale variation of the optical fiber radius, which exhibits two orders of magnitude greater fabrication precision and two orders of magnitude smaller attenuation of light than in previously developed photonic technologies (2011, 2012).
• Developed the theory of tunneling from optical nanofibers and explained the nature of transmission losses in nanofibers (2006).
• Discovered and experimentally demonstrated the fundamental limit of the optical waveguide width (2006, 2007).
• Invented and demonstrated an optical microcoil resonator (2004, 2007).
• Demonstrated a silica microbubble resonator with a micron wall thickness (2010).
• Invented an optical bottle resonator and demonstrated fabrication of bottle resonators with angstrom precision (2004, 2011).
• Over 50 invited talks at international conferences; 1 book, 4 book chapters, 2 edited journal issues, more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and more than 25 patents.
• Topical Editor of International Journals, Committee Chair, Workshop Organizer, and Committee Member at several international conferences.
• Fellow, Optical Society of America; Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder.

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