Biography
Boris Zeldovich received his Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences degree from the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow, Russia and is currently a Professor of Physics at UCF. He predicted and discovered, experimentally, the giant optical nonlinearity of liquid crystals, which is 1010 times stronger than for usual media and is the co-discoverer of optical phase conjugation. He is currently pursuing both theoretical and experimental research programs on wave propagation in multimode optical waveguides and irregularly inhomogeneous media using the methods of nonlinear optics and dynamic holography for the processing of images transmitted through those media. He is a Member of the Russian Academy of Science.
Awards & Honors
Elevated to the status of Fellow of the Optical Society of America
1997
OSA Max Born Award in Physical Optics
1987
Elected Member of the USSR Academy of sciences
1983
USSR State Prize
Recent Publications
2013
B. Ya Zeldovich, and C-C Tsai
"An electromagnetic world without polarization"
Journal Of Optics 15(1),
2012
B Ya Zeldovich, C-C Tsai
"An electromagnetic world without polarization "
JOURNAL OF OPTICS (Bristol)
J. Opt. 15 (2013) 014014 (7pp)
2010
V. Smirnov, J. Lumeau, S. Mokhov, B.Y. Zeldovich, L.B. Glebov
"Ultranarrow Bandwidth Moire Reflecting Bragg Gratings Recorded in Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass"
Optics Letters 35(4), pp. 592-594
C. C. Tsai, L. B. Glebov, and B. Ya. Zeldovich
"Adiabatic three-wave volume hologram: large efficiency independent of grating strength and polarization"
Opt. Lett. 31, 718-720
H. Sarkissian, S.V. Serak, N.V. Tabiryan, L.B. Glebov, V. Rotar, B.Ya. Zeldovich
"Polarization-controlled switching between diffraction orders in transverse-periodically aligned nematic liquid crystals"
Optics Letters 31, 2248-2250
Goun, A. A.; Zel'dovich, B. Y.
"Relaxation of a two-level system: non-negativity of density matrix and possibility for anomalously long T-2"
Journal of Modern Optics. 49(3-4) 503-509
Goun, A. A.; Zel'Dovich, B. Y.
"Change of partial polarization of a beam under phase conjugation"
Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials. 10(3) 371-375
Savchenko, A. Y.; Tabiryan, N. V.; Zeldovich, B. Y.
"Transfer of momentum and torque from a light beam to a liquid"
Physical Review E. 56(4) 4773-4779
Bolshtyansky, M. A.; Zeldovich, B. Y.
"Random transverse tomography and phase-conjugate scanning for image acquisition through a multimode fiber"
Optical Engineering. 35(3) 769-774
Bolshtyansky, M. A.; Zeldovich, B. Y.
"Transmission of the image signal with the use of a multimode fiber"
Optics Communications. 123(4-6) 629-636
