Prof. A. E. Kaplan's research interests
Dr. Kaplan's research interests and efforts
are in the areas of
nonlinear optics and quantum electronics, in particular,
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Laser-induced Tsunami-like shock shells in nano-cluster
Coulomb explosions
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EM bursts of nuclear-time-scale
induced by relativistic electrons driven
by super-powerful laser
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intense sub-femtosecond pulses of electromagnetic radiation
and physics with them, in particular "delta"-ionization,
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EM-"bubbles" -- unipolar solitons,
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multiple cascade Raman scattering and related solitons,
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intermode trails: new interference phenomenon in quantum and wave physics,
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high-field effects, in particular laser-based generation of gamma-photons
and nuclear physics with lasers,
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bio-nonlinear optics;
two- and three-photon induced fluorescence in biomarkers,
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nonlinear and quantum optics of a single electron
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in particular, hysteretic and multiphoton
resonances due to relativistic effects,
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X-ray nonlinear optics,
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X-ray transition radiation by electron beams in periodic nanostructures,
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nonlinear optics of vacuum,
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nonlinear optical effects in superlattices,
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multiwave-wave mixing instabilities and multistability,
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light-induced nonreciprocity and related effects in optical
gyroscopes,
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optical bistability for various electrodynamic
configurations
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in particular, bistability at nonlinear
interfaces
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bistability due to self-focusing and self-bending, and
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bistable solitons,
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spatial dark solitons,
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and the
switching and steering of laser beams.
The results of Dr. Kaplan's research have been
published in more than 320
research publications,
among them more than 100 journal papers in
Phys. Rev. Letts.,
Optics Letts.,
JOSA B,
Phys. Rev. A,
IEEE J. Quant. Electr.,
etc,
a few books,
and about 40 book chapters,
a patent,
and conf. proceedings in the field.
According to the Science Citation Index,
Dr. Kaplan's work has been cited by other
researchers about 250/year within last 7 years.
Dr. Kaplan is a Fellow of
the Optical Society of America
and a member of
the American Physical Society and
the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society.
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