O.Vlokh
The Institute of Physical Optics was founded on the decree
of The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of July 7 and a respective decree
of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine from September 18 1992 and is subordinated
directly to the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Ukraine. From the
moment of its foundation the principle directions of its scientific activity
were parametrical crystallooptics and optics of phase transitions, gradient
optical effects and optics of incommensurate structures, methods of optical
measurements, optical principles of storage and communication. During ten
years of its activity the subjects of study were expanded to biooptics,
optical tomography, optics of circular polarized waves, optics and acoustics
of phase transitions at high hydrostatic pressure, optics of liquid crystals,
optical spectroscopy (Raman scattering, absorption spectroscopy), technology
of crystal growth (including biocrystals), magnetooptics, nonlinear and
parametrical optics with accounting of spatial dispersion.
The most interesting scientific results of the Institute
is the theoretical description and founding of gradient effects of parametrical
crystallooptics; a complex study of the crystals with incommensurate structure
(optical and acoustical) and their real structure by the methods of Raman
scattering and AFM; founding and study of the new effects of the optics
of circular waves (acoustogyration diffraction of light, two beam circular
refraction); study of high order parametrical effects; founding of the
“forbidden” domain structure in ferroelastics, of spatial points on phase
diagrams (isolated point, “infinity” distant point); the study of absorption
spectrums of the hemoglobin of patients with mental affections; computer
simulation of the lattice dynamic of the incommensurate crystals; growth
of borate crystals with different isotope substitution, solid solutions
of langbeinite, protein crystals, et cetera.
An automated imaging polarimeter for the reconstruction
of the strain field distribution, an automated optical microscope for study
of dynamic processes, an automated dilatometer with the sensitivity of
displacement measurements 2nm, the creation of a magnetooptical facility
for study high magnetic fields are original developments of the Institute.
The results of scientific investigations were published
in more than 700 scientific papers, abstracts, patents and books. The Institute
conducted the International Meeting on parametrical crystallooptics (Paraopt-2001)
and 1-st Ukrainian Workshop on ferroelectricity (1999). A Ukrainian Journal
of Physical Optics was founded and is being published by the Institute.
During ten years 12 co-workers obtained a Ph.D. degree and 3 – a Habilitation
degree on the speciality “optics, laser physics”. Many of them prolonged
their postdoctoral education in the foremost Universities around the world
- Waseda University, Vienna University, Paris University, Saarbrucken University,
et cetera.
For 10 years the Institute has been the leading center
of three state scientific programs of the Ministry of Education and Sciences
of Ukraine.
doi 10.3116/16091833/3/2/68/2002