CURRICULUM VITAE:

EDUCATION, RESEARCH EXPERIENCE, PRESENTATIONS,
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, ADDITIONAL

 EDUCATION

Sept. 1994 - Mar. 2001
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Ph. D. in Physics, (degree granted April 5, 2001)
Dissertation: Subfemtosecond Pulse Generation by Molecular Modulation

Sept. 1988 - June 1994
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia
Diploma + M. S. in Physics (summa cum laude)
Specialization: Laser Physics; M. S. Thesis: Integrated-Optics Biosensors

 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Jan. 2002 - present
Assistant Professor
Apr. 2001 - Jan. 2002
TEES Assistant Research Professor
Department of Physics, Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
Develop experimental apparatus for generation of sub-cycle optical pulses with prescribed temporal shape, and their possible application for ultrafast studies.

Sept. 1994 - Mar. 2001
Research Assistant
S. E. Harris group, Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Investigated electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) effects in molecular systems, which lead to a collinear generation of a wide coherent Raman spectrum with a possibility of subfemtosecond pulse Compression.

Sept. 1991 - July 1994
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Laser Biophysics Laboratory, General Physics Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Developed integrated optics-based sensors, which use Langmuir-Blodgett films as sensing elements.

 PRESENTATIONS

18 invited and plenary presentations at international conferences, including:

- 30th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics," Snowbird, Utah (2000) [Plenary];
- Gordon Research Conference on Multiphoton Processes, Tilton, New Hampshire (2000) [Plenary];
- 9th International Workshop on Laser Physics, Bordeaux, France (July 2000) [Invited];
- Photonics West, San Jose, California (January 2001) [Invited];
- 10th International Workshop on Laser Physics, Moscow, Russia (July 2001) [Invited];
- Gordon Research Conference on Quantum Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion, Mount Holyoke College, New Hampshire (July 2001) [Plenary].

 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. S. E. Harris and A. V. Sokolov, "Broadband Spectral Comb Generation with Refractive Index Control," Phys. Rev. A 55, R4019-R4022 (June 1997).

2. A. J. Merriam and A. V. Sokolov, "Anti-Stokes Raman Lasers Without Inversion," Phys. Rev. A 56, 967-975 (July 1997).

3. A. V. Sokolov, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris, "Nonlinear Optics at Maximum Coherence," Physics of Vibrations, edited by F. V. Bunkin (Allerton Press, Inc., 1998), vol. 6, pp. 18-26.

4. S. E. Harris and A. V. Sokolov, "Subfemtosecond Pulse Generation by Molecular Modulation," Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2894-2897 (October 1998).

5. A. V. Sokolov, D. D. Yavuz, and S. E. Harris, "Subfemtosecond Pulse Generation by Rotational Molecular Modulation," Opt. Lett. 24, 557-559 (April 1999).

6. F. L. Kien, J. Q. Liang, M. Katsuragawa, K. Ohtsuki, K. Hakuta, and A. V. Sokolov, "Subfemtosecond Pulse Generation with Molecular Coherence Control in Stimulated Raman Scattering," Phys. Rev. A 60, 1562-1571 (August 1999).

7. A. V. Sokolov, "Subfemtosecond Compression of Periodic Laser Pulses," Opt. Lett. 24, 1248-1250 (September 1999).

8. D. D. Yavuz, A. V. Sokolov, and S. E. Harris, "Eigenvectors of a Raman Medium," Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 75-78 (January 2000).

9. A. V. Sokolov, D. R. Walker, D. D. Yavuz, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris, "Raman Generation by Phased and Antiphased Molecular States," Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 562-565 (July 2000).

10. A. V. Sokolov, D. D. Yavuz, D. R. Walker, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris, "Light Modulation at Molecular Frequencies," Phys. Rev. A 63, 051801(R) (April 2001).

11. A. V. Sokolov, Scott Sharpe, Miroslav Shverdin, D. R. Walker, D. D. Yavuz, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris, "Optical Frequency Conversion by a Rotating Molecular Waveplate," Opt. Lett. 26, 728-730 (May 2001).

12. A. V. Sokolov, D. R. Walker, D. D. Yavuz, G. Y. Yin, and S. E. Harris, " Femtosecond Light Source for Phase-Controlled Multiphoton Ionization," Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 033402 (July 2001).

 ADDITIONAL

Member, OSA. Reviewer, Optics Letters, Physical Review A.