Alexander E. Kaplan

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Alexander E. Kaplan (born June 9, 1938 in Kiev ; † December 31, 2019 ) was a Soviet-American physicist who studied nonlinear optics and quantum optics .

Kaplan studied physics at the Moscow Physical-Technical University with a diploma in 1961 and received his doctorate (in physics and mathematics) in 1967 at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Gorky State University . From 1961 to 1963 he carried out research at a state laboratory near Moscow and from 1963 to 1979 he was at various institutes of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. From 1979 to 1982 he was at the Francis Bitter Magnetic Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , from 1982 to 1987 Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and from 1987 Professor at Johns Hopkins University .

In 1981 he was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching near Munich . He was at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1981), a consultant to Honeywell and from 1980 to 1981 Bell Laboratories and he did research for the Office of Scientific Research of the US Air Force.

He was a theorist and made contributions to various areas of nonlinear optics such as generation of higher harmonics, self-focusing, optical bistability and nonlinearities at interfaces, hysteresis effects, multi-photon resonances and quantum optics of single electrons in traps, light-induced non-reciprocity, solitons, nonlinear X-ray optics, ultra-short laser pulses, relativistic non-linear optics, shock waves in nanoclusters. He dealt with the theory of two-state systems in strong fields, with the Sagnac effect in nonlinear ring resonators and optical gyroscopes, X-rays from electrons in periodic structures (especially superlattices), four-wave mixing and their instabilities.

In 2005 he received the Max Born Award . In 1996 he received the Humboldt Research Award , with which he was at the University of Ulm . He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America .

He was a US citizen.

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  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Alexander E. Kaplan Obituary. Beth Israel Memorial Chapel, accessed January 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kaplan, Alexander E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2019