Research interests:
Fiber and nonlinear optics, fiber lasers.
Professional activities:
2024–present: Chairman of the ÚFE Board, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS)
2021: Interim director of the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS
2019: Chair of the Photoptics conference
2017–2023: Coordinator of the working package Security of critical infrastructures within the rogram Light in the Service of Society of Strategy 21, Czech Academy of Sciences
2015: Co-chair of the 6th International Conference on Semiconductor Mid-IR Materials and Optics
2013–present: Leader of the Fiber Lasers and Nonlinear Optics research team at the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS, Senior research scientist
2013–2017: Member of the Council for Cooperation with the application and industry of the CAS
2012–today: Vice-Chairman of the Council of the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS
2012–today: Member of the Academic Assembly of the CAS
2009–2010: Member of the evaluation panel, # 205, Czech Science Foundation
2007–2012: Secretary of the Board, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS
2004–2009: Member of the sub advisory committee # 102, Czech Science Foundation
2002–2013: Member of the Council for Science Popularization of the CAS
2000–2003: Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS
1998–2003: Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS
1997–present: Research scientist, Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the CAS
Education:
1997 Ph.D., Nonlinear and Quantum Optics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Dissertation Thesis: Cubic-quinth nonlinear phenomena in optical fibers
1989 M.S., Multichannel Communications, Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Telecommunications, Moscow
Awards:
2020 Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, Award in the category Business for the project “Thulium fiber lasers for industrial and medical applications”
2013 Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, Award in the category Original solutions for the project entitled “Optical Packet Switch”
Patents and utility models:
- P. Honzátko. Odrazivá metalická rezonanční difrakční mřížka s vytékajícím videm, způsob její výroby a její použití. Česká republika. Patent, č. 308307, 18.3.2020.
- P. Peterka, P. Honzátko and R. Slavík. Celovláknový laser s pasivním Q-spínáním. Česká republika. Patent, č. 303333, 21.6.2012.
- P. Honzátko. Jednofrekvenční širokospektrálně přeladitelný vláknový laser. Česká republika. Užitný vzor, č. 31754, 7.5.2018.
- P. Honzátko. Široce laditelný generátor koherentního optického signálu pro střední infračervenou spektrální oblast. Česká republika. Užitný vzor, č. 28042, 31.3.2015.
- P. Honzátko. Optické zařízení pro vlnovou konverzi optických signálů. Česká republika. Užitný vzor, č. 20815, 26.4.2012.
Supervised students:
M.S. Students:
- Soumik Kundu Babuya (2020)
- Ján Tomko (2015)
- Tomáš Němeček (2013)
- Matěj Komanec (studies completed at 2009)
- Pavel Škoda (studies completed at 2008)
- Zdeněk Chmelař (studies completed at 2005)
Ph.D. Students:
- Tianxian Feng
- Y. Baravets (2021)
- M. Vanek (2021)
- Aleš Kumpera
- Boleslav Vraný, MSc.