Department of Photonics and Microwave Physics

Department of Photonics and Microwave Physics is one of the largest departments of Faculty of Physics of Lomonosov Moscow State University. It consists of more than 15 laboratories that hold both theoretical and experimental investigations on nonlinear optics, photonics, plasmonics, magnetooptics, optoelectronics, microwave electronics, electromagnetic waves propagation, spectroscopy, biophysics and other actual scientific areas. In 1989-2014 the department was headed by Prof. Anatoly Sukhorukov, one of the leading Russian scientists in nonlinear optics.

Our staff maintains cooperation with various institutions both in Russia and in other countries such as Belarus, Ukraine, Spain, Germany, USA, China, India, Australia, UK, and others, and with several companies as well. For example, in cooperation with Rhode&Schwartz company a laboratory on spectroscopy and multibeam wave propagation in urban media was founded.

Our department holds annual conference on wave phenomena in nonhomogeneous media, physics and applications of microwaves in May in Moscow suburb.

The principle investigations are held in the following areas:

Photonics and plasmonics: optical and magnetooptical properties of nanostructured materials, plasmonic structures, photonic crystals and magnetic nanostructures; propagation and interaction of wave beams (including those with phase dislocations), pulses and solitons in nonlinear media, nonhomogeneous media (in particular, in photonic crystals), in artificial media - metamaterials; dynamics of ultrashort pulses consisting of several field oscillations; properties of surface plasmon polariton waves; optoelectronics and acoustooptics.
Prof. Vladimir I. Belotelov ()
Dr. Grigory A. Knyazev ()
Dr. Daria O. Ignatyeva
Dr. Andrey N. Kalish ()

Waves propagation and wireless communication in urban media
Dr. Anatoly F. Korolev ()
Dr. Pyotr N. Zakharov

Microwaves in medicine, spectroscopy and biomedicine: radiovision, magneto-resonant tomography, radiospectroscopy of solids
Dr. Yury A. Pirogov ()
Dr. Galina I. Ovchinnikova ()

Microwave electronics and wireless energy transfer
Dr. Vladimir L. Savvin ()
Dr. Gohar M. Kazaryan

Education

The lecture and practical courses for the students of our department cover various areas of contemporary optics, photonics, microwave electronics and radiophysics:

Fundamentals of photonics

Theory of oscillations

Theory of waves

Physics of microwaves

Oscillations and waves in plasma

Statistical radiophysics

Numerical methods in radiophysics

Nonlinear quantum phenomena in optics

Terahertz photonics

Magnetooptics and photonic crystals

Theory of signals

Dynamics of nonlinear oscillations and waves

Coherent radiation of electrons

Solid-state electronics

Electromagnetic properties of materials

Waves in layered media

Waves propagation in atmosphere

Physics of nanostructures

Methods of modeling in nonlinear photonics

Contacts:

Department of Photonics and Microwave Physics
Faculty of Physics
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia