| Institute of Physical Optics, Ministry of
Education of Ukraine has been founded according to the Government Resolution
dated by July 7, 1992 to support fundamental and application research in
Physical optics, for development of existing and formation of new scientific
schools in Physical optics, foundation of the bases for modern scientific
optical industry, increasing of the qualification level of scientific,
engineer and teaching staff.
The Institute was founded on the basis of
an available scientific school of Parametric Optics, which at that time
was unique for its scientific direction as well as for its research level
in Ukraine and far abroad. the scientific school became well known in the
world starting from the renowned papers on Electrooptics, being the pioneer
work in this direction in former USSR.
The founder of the Institute, a scientist
with the world recognition, community leader and known Ukrainian politician
Prof.
O. G. Vlokh (1934-2009), started this research at the Institute of
Crystallography, Academy of Sciences of USSR and continued at Ivan Franko
Lviv State University, where Prof. Vlokh has founded a Chair
of Nonlinear Optics right following his discovery of the phenomenon
of electrogyration.
To explore these studies and accounting their
importance for the military defense the Chair of Nonlinear Optics provided
scientific courses for students with the specialty “Optical and Optical
Electronic Systems”. Later on a Special Design Bureau “Modulator” was founded
on the basis of the Chair of Nonlinear Optics. The total duration of the
courses for students was 5.5 years, with the last courses year reserved
for practical research by the students in scientific laboratories at the
Chair.
Number of prominent scientists, working at present
in Ukraine and abroad and being heads of Departments and scientific groups
have begun their carrier graduating from the Chair of Nonlinear Optics.
Totally for the period of the activity of
the scientific school more that 50 scientists have obtained PhD (Candidate
of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics) degree and eight scientists got
Habilitation degree Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, most
of them during last twenty years at the Institute of Physical Optics.
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