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Prof. Miros³aw A. Karpierz tel. (+48 22) 234 7277 fax: (+48 22) 628 2171 e-mail: karpierz@if.pw.edu.pl |
Address:
Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology
Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warszawa, Poland
ACADEMIC DEGREES:
2000 - DSc (habilitation) in physics, Faculty of Physics, WUT (thesis: "Reorientational and cascading optical nonlinearity in optical waveguides");
1990 - PhD in physics, Institute of Physics, WUT (thesis: "The influence of nonlinearity on transmission and switching properties of optical waveguides");
1987 - MSc in applied physics, Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, WUT (thesis: "Optical bistability in dielectric waveguide structures").
UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES:
teaching: lectures in principles of physics, integrated and fiber optics, nonlinear optics;
research projects: optoelectronic mammoscope, optical switching, liquid crystalline optical logic gates, nonlinear optical waveguides, integrated all-optical logic gates, optical solitons in cascading nonlinearity, solitons in liquid crystals.
FIELDS OF INTERESTS (publications):
nonlinear optics of liquid crystals (spatial solitons in liquid crystals, liquid crystalline waveguides, reorientation optical nonlinearity in liquid crystals);
nonlinear guided-wave phenomena (optical solitons, nonlinear optical couplers, nonlinear interaction of guided modes);
optoelectronic systems and devices.
OTHER INFORMATION:
member of the Optical Society of America, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Polish Physical Society, Photonics Society of Poland.