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Vladimír Kuzmiak

Vladimír Kuzmiak, CSc.

Vladimir Kuzmiak
Position: Senior researcher
Department: Fiber lasers and non-linear optics
+420 266 773 445
kuzmiak@ufe.cz
Location: Main building of UFE, Praha 8 - Kobylisy

Research interests:

Photonic crystals, calculation of the photonic band structure, metamaterials, random systems, Bose-Einstein condensate, optical lattices, matter wave solitons, semiconductor physics – electronic band structure of defects in semiconductors.

Professional activities:

2000: NATO Fellowship for NATO ASI on Photonic Crystals and Light Localization, Crete, Greece.

1997: JSPS Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan.

1995: NATO Fellowship for NATO ASI on Photonic Bandgap Materials, Crete, Greece.

1992: Fulbright Fellowship, CIES, Washington D.C. 

  • Member of Czechoslovak Union of Mathematicians and Physicists
  • Member of Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • Member of American Society for Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Education:

1990  Ph.D., Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Czech Academy of Sciences

1981  RNDr., Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague

Active grant projects:

Investigator:

Topological properties of skyrmionic states in non-Hermitian photonic structures

Period: 

1. September 2025 –
22. September 2028

Co-investigator:

Member:

Closed grant projects

Investigator:

Propagation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on Artificial Surface Structures

Period: 

1. March 2012 –
31. December 2015
Theory and modelling of non-reciprocal sub-wavelength struktures and plasmonic waveguide systems.

Period: 

1. April 2009 –
31. December 2011
Integrated non-reciprocal photonic crystals based on the two-dimensional magnetooptical photonic crystals

Period: 

1. January 2008 –
31. December 2009
Optical properties of photonic crystals fabricated from nonlinear and magnetic metamaterials

Period: 

1. October 2003 –
31. October 2007
The Propagation of EM Waves in Dispersive and Absorptive Periodic Systems and Randomly Disordered Systems and Magnetic Field Effects on Photonic Band Structures

Period: 

20. June 1998 –
24. June 2002

Co-investigator:

Advanced functionalities in subwavelength photonic and plasmonic structures

Period: 

1. January 2019 –
30. June 2022

Member:

Publications

Books:

Book chapters:

Journal papers:

J. Čtyroký, J. Petráček, V. Kuzmiak and I. Richter, "Bound modes in the continuum in integrated photonic LiNbO3 waveguides: are they always beneficial?", Optics Express. 31(1), 44-55 (2023) doi:10.1364/OE.477228
J. Čtyroký, J. Petráček, I. Richter and V. Kuzmiak, "Design of a broadband polarization controller based on silicon nitride-loaded thin-film lithium niobate", Optics Express. 31(22), 35542-35551 (2023) doi:10.1364/OE.501411
J. Petráček, V. Kuzmiak, J. Čtyroký and I. Richter, "Guiding light through quasi-TE modes embedded in the radiation continuum", Optics Letters. 48(13), 3463-3466 (2023) doi:10.1364/OL.486166
J. Petráček and V. Kuzmiak, "Bound states in the continuum in waveguide arrays within a symmetry classification scheme", Optics Express. 30(20), 35712-35724 (2022) doi:10.1364/OE.464599
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