Sergey B Mirov

Sergey B. Mirov received the M.S. degree in electronic engineering, from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Technical University, in 1978, and the Ph.D. degree in physics, from the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He served as a Staff Research Physicist, at P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, and a Principal Scientist at the General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His early work involved physics of color centers formation under ionizing irradiation, color center's photo chemistry, laser spectroscopy of solids and led to the development of the first room temperature operable commercial color center lasers, passive Q-switches, and nonlinear filters for various types of neodymium lasers. He was awarded the USSR First National Prize for Young Scientists, in 1982, for the development of LiF color center saturable absorbers. He received Distinguished Research Awards from the General Physics Institute, in 1985 and 1989, and from the P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute in 1980. Since 1993, Dr. Mirov is a faculty member at the Department of Physics of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. Currently, he is a professor of physics at the UAB and codirector of the Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies. His main fields of interest include tunable solid-state lasers, laser spectroscopy, and quantum electronics. In 2004 the Institute of Electrical Engineers in the UK has named Dr. Mirov and his team recipients of the Snell Premium award for the input in optoelectronics and development of Cr2+:ZnS mid-IR external cavity and microchip lasers. Dr. Mirov is a Member of the Optical Society of America, the American Physics Society, and the International Society for Optical Engineering. He has authored or coauthored over three hundred scientific publications in the field of quantum electronics, has published 1 book, several book chapters, and holds thirteen patents.

Biography Updated on 4 September 2007

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. En route to electrically pumped broadly tunable middle infrared lasers based on transition metal doped II–VI semiconductors
    Journal of Luminescence, vol. 125, no. 1-2, pp. 184–195, 2007
  2. Mid-IR transitions of trivalent neodymium in low phonon laser crystals
    Optical Materials, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 1115–1128, 2007
  3. Recent Progress in Transition-Metal-Doped II–VI Mid-IR Lasers
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 810–822, 2007
  4. Hot-pressed ceramic Cr
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 24, p. 11694, 2006
  5. Stimulated Raman scattering in mid IR spectral range 2.31-2.75-3.7 µm in BaWO4 crystal under 1.9 and 1.56 µm pumping
    Laser Physics Letters, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 17–20, 2006
  6. Amplification of narrow line color center laser oscillation
    Optics Communications, vol. 254, no. 4-6, pp. 290–298, 2005
  7. Spectroscopic studies of molecular-beam epitaxially grown Cr[sup 2+]-doped ZnSe thin films
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 86, no. 9, p. 091105, 2005
  8. Hemoglobin adsorption isotherm at the silica-water interface with evanescent wave cavity ring-down spectroscopy
    Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 024025, 2005
  9. 3.9-4.8 µm gain-switched lasing of Fe:ZnSe at room temperature
    Optics Express, vol. 13, no. 26, p. 10608, 2005
  10. Multiwavelength mid-IR spatially-dispersive CW laser based on polycrystalline Cr2+:ZnSe
    Optics Express, vol. 12, no. 20, p. 4986, 2004
  11. Effective suppression of fluorescence light in Raman measurements using ultrafast time gated charge coupled device camera
    Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 75, no. 3, p. 630, 2004
  12. Tunable distributed feedback color center laser using stabilized F[sub 2][sup +**] color centers in LiF crystal
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 84, no. 16, p. 3022, 2004
  13. Absorption and photoluminescence studies of CdGa2S4:Cr
    Optics Communications, vol. 233, no. 4-6, pp. 403–410, 2004
  14. Direct nanosecond Nd?Ce nonradiative energy transfer in cerium trifluoride laser crystals
    Journal of Luminescence, vol. 101, no. 3, pp. 211–218, 2003
  15. Fluorescence assay for monitoring Zn-deficient superoxide dismutase in vitro
    Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, vol. 59, no. 13, pp. 3165–3175, 2003
  16. Diode and fibre pumped Cr2+:ZnS mid-infrared external cavity and microchip lasers
    IEE Proceedings - Optoelectronics, vol. 150, no. 4, p. 340, 2003
  17. External cavity multiwavelength superbroadband diode laser
    Optics Communications, vol. 220, no. 1-3, pp. 161–169, 2003
  18. Erbium fiber laser–pumped continuous-wave microchip Cr2+:ZnS and Cr2+:ZnSe lasers
    Optics Letters, vol. 27, no. 11, p. 909, 2002
  19. Broadly tunable compact continuous-wave Cr2+:ZnS laser
    Optics Letters, vol. 27, no. 12, p. 1040, 2002
  20. Temperature dependencies of excited states lifetimes and relaxation rates of 3–5 phonon (4–6 µm) transitions in the YAG, LuAG and YLF crystals doped with trivalent holmium, thulium, and erbium
    Optical Materials, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 355–365, 2002
  21. Continuous-wave tunable Cr2+:ZnS laser
    Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 607–611, 2002
  22. All-solid-state laser system tunable in deep ultraviolet based on sum-frequency generation in CLBO
    Optics Communications, vol. 198, no. 4-6, pp. 403–406, 2001
  23. Alexandrite laser pumped LiF:F2- laser
    Optics Communications, vol. 199, no. 1-4, pp. 201–205, 2001
  24. Spectroscopic analysis and persistent photon-gated spectral hole burning in LiF:F[sub 2][sup -] color center crystal
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 79, no. 15, p. 2318, 2001
  25. The effect of ordering of internal water in thaumatin and lysozyme crystals as revealed by Raman method
    Journal of Crystal Growth, vol. 219, no. 1-2, pp. 102–114, 2000
  26. Temperature-dependent spectroscopic analysis of F2+** and F2+**-like color centers in LiF
    Journal of Luminescence, vol. 91, no. 3-4, pp. 147–153, 2000
  27. Structural and morphological study of pulsed laser deposited calcium phosphate bioceramic coatings: Influence of deposition conditions, laser parameters, and target properties
    Journal of Biomedical Materials Research, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 248–258, 2000
  28. Multiphonon sideband intensities in rare earth ions in crystal
    Journal of Luminescence, vol. 83-84, no. 1-3, pp. 171–175, 1999
  29. Nonradiative relaxation and inhomogeneous splitting of aggregated optical centers in the Nd3+-doped CaF2 and SrF2 crystals (FLN and decay study)
    Journal of Luminescence, vol. 83-84, no. 1-3, pp. 361–366, 1999
  30. Efficient room temperature LiF:F2+** color center laser tunable in 820–1210 nm range
    Optics Communications, vol. 147, no. 1-3, pp. 107–111, 1998
  31. Two-photon absorption in GaSe and CdGeAs2
    Optics Communications, vol. 155, no. 1-3, pp. 47–50, 1998
  32. Tunable middle infrared downconversion in GaSe and AgGaS2
    Optics Communications, vol. 155, no. 4-6, pp. 307–312, 1998
  33. Polarized Raman Spectroscopic Studies of Tetragonal Lysozyme Single Crystals
    Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 1216–1229, 1998
  34. New trends in tunable lasers based on color center and radiationally pertubed doped crystals
    Journal of Luminescence, vol. 72-74, pp. 9–11, 1997
  35. Photoluminescence studies in Sc: CaF2 and Sc,Ce: CaF2 crystals
    Journal of Luminescence, vol. 69, no. 1, pp. 35–40, 1996
  36. High-pressure and high-temperature studies on oxide garnets
    Physical Review B, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 6200–6209, 1996
  37. Progress in color center lasers
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 22–30, 1995
  38. External photoelectric effect in CaF2:Sm2+ crystals under irradiation with visible light
    Optics Communications, vol. 95, no. 4-6, pp. 260–264, 1993
  39. Room-temperature color center lasers
    IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 24, no. 6, pp. 1052–1069, 1988
  40. Malsan-201 automated tunable radiation-colored lithium fluoride crystal laser
    Journal of Applied Spectroscopy, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 1083–1086, 1987
  41. VUV optical parameters of LiF and color-center formation mechanisms
    Journal of Applied Spectroscopy, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 179–182, 1984